纽约-前总统唐纳德·特朗普在周日播出的一次采访中向共和党全国委员会主席发出了警告，当被问及她时，她说“可能会发生一些变化”。
特朗普曾被福克斯新闻频道主持人玛利亚·巴蒂罗姆问及罗娜·麦克丹尼尔，她一直面临特朗普一些盟友的毁灭性攻击，包括去年推翻她的失败努力的一部分“转折点”组织。
“我认为她为我管理密歇根州时做得很好。我认为她最初在RNC表现不错。特朗普在福克斯新闻频道的《周日早间期货》节目中说:“我要说现在，可能会有一些变化。
RNC没有立即回应置评请求。
在本周公布的竞选活动披露显示RNC银行账户只有800万美元和100万美元债务后，川普还面临该党财务状况的压力。
“所以我有很多钱，”川普在周日播出的采访中说，他认为“人们没有关注RNC。他们想要改变。”
“你要明白，我和RNC没有任何关系。我已经分居了，”他补充道。
特朗普发表上述言论之际，他和他的盟友一直在推动共和党支持他，并实际上结束初选，尽管他仍面临最后一个主要竞争对手——他的前驻联合国大使妮基·黑利。
麦克丹尼尔上个月因在特朗普赢得新罕布什尔州初选后表示海莉无法获得提名而受到批评，他告诉福克斯新闻频道:“我们需要团结在我们的最终提名人唐纳德·特朗普周围。”特朗普的盟友本周试图让RNC宣布特朗普为“推定提名人”，但在他表示反对后被撤回。
在周五的RNC冬季会议上，去年赢得第四个两年任期的麦克丹尼尔呼吁该党团结一致，支持击败乔·拜登总统的目标。
“我们共和党人将团结在一起，就像我们党很久以前努力维护的联盟一样团结，”麦克丹尼尔援引罗纳德·里根的话说。据当时在场的人士透露，麦克丹尼尔在讨论一次私人聚会时透露了她的言论。
虽然特朗普和RNC在他输掉2020年大选时合作过，但这一次他们在许多问题上存在分歧。特朗普拒绝签署该党的忠诚承诺，跳过了所有经批准的初选辩论，并继续对提前投票和邮寄投票表示怀疑，尽管RNC正在推行一项旨在鼓励这两种投票的“银行你的投票”倡议。
特朗普在采访中还继续推动共和党支持他，并一度声称共和党参议院领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)有兴趣加入他越来越多的支持者名单。麦康奈尔自前总统离任以来一直对他深表批评。
“我认为米奇·麦康奈尔想支持我，这是我听到的，”他声称，并补充说。“每个人都在排队。他们都在上车。”
麦康奈尔的代表没有立即回应置评请求。麦康奈尔一直坚持不参加初选，但此前表示他将支持最终的提名人。
Trump says 'they’ll probably be some changes made' at RNC
who has been facing withering attacks from some Trump allies, including the group Turning Point, which was part of an unsuccessful effort to oust her last year.
“I think she did great when she ran Michigan for me. I think she did OK, initially, in the RNC. I would say right now, there'll probably be some changes made,” Trump said on FOX News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures.
The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump was also pressed on the party's finances following campaign disclosures released this week that showed the RNC had just $8 million in the bank and $1 million in debt.
“So I have a lot of money,” Trump said in the interview that aired Sunday, arguing that “people are not looking at the RNC. They want changes."
“You have to understand, I have nothing to do with the RNC. I’m separate,” he added.
The comments come as Trump and his allies have been pushing the party to get behind him and effectively end the primary, even though he still faces a final major rival, his former U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley.
McDaniel was criticized last month for saying Haley had no path to the nomination after Trump won the New Hampshire primary, telling Fox News: “We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump." An effort by Trump allies to have the RNC this week declare Trump the “presumptive nominee” was withdrawn after he came out against it.
At the RNC’s winter meeting in Las Vegas Friday, McDaniel, who won a fourth two-year term last year, called for the party to unite behind the goal of defeating President Joe Biden.
“We Republicans will stick together, as united as the union our party long ago fought to preserve,” McDaniel said, quoting Ronald Reagan, according to people who were in the room and disclosed her remarks on condition of anonymity to discuss a private gathering.
While Trump and the RNC worked hand-in-hand on his losing 2020 bid, they have disagreed on a number of issues this time around. Trump refused to sign the party’s loyalty pledge, skipped all of its sanctioned primary debates and has continued to cast suspicion on early and mail-in voting, even as the RNC pursues a “Bank Your Vote” initiative aimed at encouraging both.
Trump, in the interview, also continued to push the party to rally behind him and at one point claimed Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been deeply critical of the former president since he left office, is interested in joining his growing list of endorsements.
“I think Mitch McConnell wants to endorse me, that’s what I hear," he alleged, adding. "Everybody’s getting in line. They’re all getting on board.”
Representatives for McConnell did not immediately respond to requests for comment. McConnell has made a point of staying out of the primary, but previously said he would support the eventual nominee.
