Steele Fires Back At Critics: ‘My Style is Not Something You Get Used To Very Easily’ (VIDEO)

RNC Chairman Michael Steele
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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele had a contentious press conference yesterday at the RNC’s winter meeting in Hawaii, with the topic of his sometimes heated relationship with party members dominating the discussion according to Politico.

“My style is not something you get used to very easily, I know that,” said Steele. Nevertheless, he held up the party’s recent successes in fundraising and the elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts as evidence that he is doing his job well.

“At the end of the day the members of the party – and this is what they reinforced to me – charged me to do two things: raise money and win elections,” Steele said. “On these two fronts, I think we’re doing okay.”

When a reporter asked Steele whether the members want him to stay as chairman, he responded: “Yeah, did you get intel otherwise? You know something I don’t know?” The reporter told Steele that some members have complained privately. “Oh, they’ve said critical things privately to you?” said Steele. “Well, I’m sure they have and I look forward to that conversation publicly.”

Steele also derided the media’s coverage of himself: “As much as a lot of you folks may find me fascinating to write about, and to opine on, and to theorize and put out there some example of whatever, I don’t know what, but at the end of the day it’s not about me.”

Late Update: Here’s a video excerpt, courtesy of CNN:

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