Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie backed up the current Chair Reince Priebus on CNN’s State of the Union, saying he too thought a contentious primary would work in their favor in the general election.
“I think the process is healthy,” Gillespie said. “I think a competitive primary is going to result in a nominee who is stronger at the end of the process.”
On Face the Nation Sunday, Priebus said he thought the long primary was good for the party.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, however, had the opposite take. He said Sunday that “I don’t think anybody in their right mind thinks that this way the primaries have played out has been good for the Republican chances,” adding only that the good news for Republicans is that President Obama “ought to be soaring” under these condisions, and he’s not.
