In response Sunday, McDaniel slammed Ramaswamy, and other cynics within the the party, for focusing their attacks on other Republicans, instead of taking aim at Democrats.

“This circular firing squad, this attacking other Republicans like we saw with Kevin McCarthy, like we’ve been seeing over and over again, it is hurting us,” McDaniel said.

Ramaswamy’s Saturday-evening social media campaign against McDaniel was the latest blow in a sparring match he began with McDaniel on the Republican primary debate stage last week.

“We’ve become a party of losers at the end of the day,” Ramaswamy said during Wednesday’s debate. “Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave, that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023,” he added, offering to cede the rest of his time on stage to her if she would be willing to come on stage and resign.