JEVON WILLIAMS' FULL LETTER TO FELLOW RNC COMMITTEEMEN
Tuesday, January 1, 2019 10:13 PM
Dear fellow RNC member,
Merry Christmas (yes, it’s still Christmas), happy New Year, and warm greetings from where many of you probably want to be right now: America’s Caribbean.
Imagine my surprise when I read the junior senator-elect from Utah’s unprecedented rebuke of President Donald J. Trump in an op-ed on the pages of The Washington Post that ran before he was even sworn into office. I couldn’t believe this was coming from our party’s 2012 nominee, who, despite differences in politics, still professes to be a Republican. With Republicans like him who needs Democrats.
Seriously. I swear that Republicans can be their own worst enemy. Democrats don’t have to worry about the three-ring circus and civil war that is engulfing their party’s 2020 nomination campaign because so-called Republicans are forcing us to spend valuable time, money, and resources in re-nominating our president.
Make no mistake. This was calculated political treachery. The op-ed, again before he even assumed office, was published the night of New Year’s Day. This was done to define the week’s narrative in the mainstream media and chattering class. It also only serves to undermine our party and its president by playing into the hands of House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer as they seek to divide Republicans and distract attention away from their refusal to protect our borders.
As an immigrant, a combat veteran, a black American, a millennial, and as a member of the RNC, I wholeheartedly support and endorse President Trump for re-nomination. That isn’t to say I don’t have my disappointments. I do. Like many of you, I have been frustrated by the inability to get Republicans nominated to U.S. attorney, U.S. marshal, and District Court judgeships. But the record is clear and President Trump’s policies at home and abroad are getting results by putting the national interest first and foremost.
My friends, you know what’s going to happen.
Messrs. Romney, Flake, and Kasich will continue chasing their fantasy of being president, even if that means destroying our party and denying President Trump re-election.
Look, the political history is clear. No Republican president opposed for re-nomination has ever won re-election.
Unfortunately, loopholes in the rules governing the 2020 re-nomination campaign are enabling these so-called Republicans to flirt with the possibility of contested primaries and caucuses.
While President Trump would win re-nomination it wouldn’t come quick and it wouldn’t be inexpensive. Any contested re-nomination campaign—even a forlorn hope—would only help Democrats.
Accordingly, I am asking for your support to take the unprecedented step of amending the rules to close loopholes in the re-nomination campaign, including Rule 40. These rules, as I read them and has been reported in the press, didn’t take into account an incumbent president running for re-election. Beyond a rules amendment, I also ask for your support of a resolution declaring the RNC’s unanimous and unequivocal endorsement of President Trump for re-nomination. This resolution would also declare him the presumptive nominee in 2020. I intend for both of these items to be acted upon at the winter meeting later this month, including, if necessary, by suspending the rules to take up this business.
The so-called Republicans seeking to defeat President Trump have used our silence to advance their cause.
It’s time to make our voice heard: Our party, be it the RNC or the grassroots in the 56 states, territories and District of Columbia, is united behind President Trump.
Yours always,
Jevon O.A. Williams
National Committeeman, Virgin Islands
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