Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has claimed that there is a “deep bench” of GOP presidential candidates.

McDaniel made the comment on Sunday’s episode of CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“It could be a big stage… I think it speaks about the deep bench we have. I mean, we have so many great governors, senators, congressional leaders, business leaders, a former president. We have such a great bench of candidates,” McDaniel said.

Former President Trump, neocon Nikki Haley, and political activist Vivek Ramaswamy are the only Republican candidates who have announced their campaigns.

Other likely candidates include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, though neither has announced their intent at the time of publishing this story.

“I look at the Democrats, what they’re doing to limit any competition to Biden,” McDaniel said. “Why? Because Joe Biden came in eighth. So that is a president who’s weak, who’s worried about competition from his own party, and we have a broad bench ready to run for president.”

McDaniel said that the party would likely request that primary candidates commit to backing whoever the eventual nominee is.

“I expect that they will accept the results in 2024. I’m not — I don’t know who that person is right now. But, yes, we’re going to accept the results. And we’re going to move forward and work to govern this country. But I think they’re going to accept the results because they’re going to be the president,” McDaniel said.

Republican voters will decide the Republican nominee, and anyone getting on the Republican National Committee debate stage should be able to say they will support the will of the voters and the eventual nominee of our party. pic.twitter.com/vvXN1Tl3Qx

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) February 26, 2023

In a tweet with a clip from her interview, McDaniel wrote, “Republican voters will decide the Republican nominee, and anyone getting on the Republican National Committee debate stage should be able to say they will support the will of the voters and the eventual nominee of our party.”

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The US Energy Department has come out and claimed that COVID was released from a lab.  But no American entity has yet to claim that the release was intentional. 

According to the Wall Street Journal this morning:

The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

“The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.”

TGP was the first major publication to report on the Wuhan Lab and the likelihood of COVID being released from that lab.  We also reported that the lab was working on live animals and information coming out of China showed that the Chinese reported that the lab was the source of COVID through February 2020.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Chinese Officials Reported Wuhan Institute Was Source of Coronavirus Through February

However, one thing that the experts in the States give China a pass on is whether COVID was released intentionally or not.  

Why would the experts in our country who only now report on the lab leak claim that the leak in a lab was a “mishap”?

Last April, Dr. Li-Meng Yan says China released the COVID intentionally.  She said that COVID was not an accident.  Dr. Li-Meng was a virologist in Hong Kong who fled after the COVID pandemic.

The Genius of Trump: China Economy is Growing at Its Slowest Rate in 30 Years – Prognosis For Future Doesn’t Look Good

If China did release the COVID pandemic intentionally they had a reason to.  Trump was destroying the China economy and they needed to get rid of Trump because they were hurting.

The Genius of Trump: China Economy is Growing at Its Slowest Rate in 30 Years – Prognosis For Future Doesn’t Look Good

Our media won’t come close to reporting this or throwing it on the table.  Why?

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