RNC chairwoman pushes back on Michelle Obama’s ‘all men, all white’ comment

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel hit back at former first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday for saying the GOP is “all men, all white.”

“It’s unfortunate Michelle Obama would disregard the contributions of conservative women and people of all backgrounds with one sweeping, false accusation,” McDaniel tweeted Thursday.

Unfortunate Michelle would disregard contributions of conservative women and people of all backgrounds with one sweeping false accusation. https://t.co/gMSuw8aCnj

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) October 5, 2017

The RNC chief was reacting to comments Obama made at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women on Tuesday in which the former first lady took shots at Republicans who refused to work with her husband for the duration of his presidency.

{mosads}“What you can see is this real dichotomy — on one side of the room, it’s a feeling of color,” Obama said Tuesday. “On one side of the room, it’s literally gray and white. Literally, that’s the color palette on one side of the room.”

“On the other side of the room, there are yellows and blues and whites and greens. Physically, there’s a difference in color, in the tone. … Because one side: all men, all white. On the other side: some women, some people of color,” she added.

Obama doubled down on her comments the next day at a marketing conference in Boston, telling the crowd that women who voted against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the presidential election betrayed their gender.

“Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,” Obama said Wednesday.