RNC chair refuses to criticize or defend her uncle Mitt Romney after he was barred from conservative conference

Ronna McDaniel.
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There will be no family feuding here, at least on television.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel mostly deflected questions from CBS's Margaret Brennan about her uncle Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) during a Face the Nation appearance Sunday. The Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday announced that Romney won't be invited to this year's event after he broke with Republicans and voted for additional witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.