Joe Gruters loses bid for RNC Treasurer to K.C. Crosbie
Joe Gruters will not be the next Treasurer of the Republican National Committee.
The current Chair of the Republican Party of Florida lost the election for the national party role to K.C. Crosbie, Kentucky’s National Committeewoman.
Still, Gruters earned raves from other state Party Chairs, who said the work done in Florida over the past four years offers a template of success.
Gruters ran as an ally of newly re-elected RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, who won a closely watched contest earlier in the day to keep her position over challengers Harmeet Dhillon and Mike Lindell.
Peers who supported Gruters’ bid praised him in nomination speeches.
“He took a purple state and made it red,” said New Hamps...