August 21, 2023      2:50 PM

Texas Young Republicans split from the Republican Party of Texas and vote no confidence in RPT Chair Rinaldi

Rinaldi’s preferred candidate for Chair of the National Young Republicans lost to Texas candidate Hayden Padgett; the Texas YR’s sided with Padgett while Rinaldi says he’s “never seen such an unhinged temper tantrum from a winning team.”

National and state level Young Republican groups over the weekend delivered two strong rebukes to Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi, who had actively supported a non-Texan against Texan Hayden Padgett in the race to lead the Young Republican National Federation.

Padgett defeated the Virginia-based candidate backed by Rinaldi, Jessi Blakely.

After that, Texas Young Republicans not only voted to leave the RPT as a partner organization but they also voted no confidence in Chair Rinaldi, who said he’d “seriously never seen such an unhinged temper tantrum from a winning team.”

We are in the era of sore winners, after all.

By Scott Braddock

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