RNC's McDaniel: Comey Left the GOP, 'Glad to See Him Go'

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel pushed back at former FBI director James Comey's insistence that the party left him, saying he has left the party and the American people behind.

"The Republican Party has left me and many others," Comey told a podcast Wednesday. "I just think they've lost their way and I can't be associated with it."

McDaniel appeared on Fox Business Network Thursday morning and said Comey is wrong.

"I will say he left the Republican Party, we did not leave him. He has left. We're glad to see him go at this point, with what he's done with this self-serving book tour, monetizing his relationship with the president," McDaniel said.

"We know now how unfit he was to be FBI director with the mistruths that he's put forward. And I think this book shows Comey's character, which is one of salacious details, one of disclosing private conversations with the president of the United States."

Comey has been on a media tour this week as he promotes his new book, which talks about his interactions with President Donald Trump before and after Trump took office. Comey was fired last May.

McDaniel argued that Comey's decision to leave the GOP behind shows he is abandoning Americans.

"Let's just talk about the Republican Party and leadership," she said. "Unemployment at a record low, jobs are coming back to this country, wages are up, two-thirds of Americans have bigger paychecks. If that's the party leaving him, then he's left the American people."

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