National Public Radio: “Here’s what the Republican National Committee members didn’t talk about at their summer meeting, but, rather, talked around: their existential need to broaden their base of support, and how so far their traditional base is not exactly embracing the idea.”

“Publicly, Priebus and others at the three-day meeting say the project, while a long-term endeavor, is on track… Privately, other Republicans are less sanguine — and already wondering if it will take another White House loss in 2016 for the party base to accept what they are already certain is demographic inevitability.”

That Reince Priebus still heads the Republican National Committee is unusual, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“No national head of either party in the modern era has retained that seat after a loss in the presidential election. Some now expect him to keep the job through the 2016 election, which would make him the longest-serving GOP chairman in nearly 30 years.”

“The chairman has poured most of his energies into raising money — he said he spends five hours a day on donor calls — and into building out the party’s infrastructure, including an aggressive, state-by-state outreach to minority voters… The GOP ended June with $7 million more in cash than the Democrats had, the federal records show.”

A RNC spokesman told Politico that the party’s newly-passed boycott of NBC and CNN would also extend to their Spanish-language channels: Telemundo and CNN Español.

Said Sean Spicer: “My understanding is that they both would be excluded.”

“That leaves Univision, the country’s leading Spanish-language network, as the obvious go-to for any Republican primary debate targeted toward America’s rapidly growing Latino population, which the GOP is desperate to make inroads with in 2016.”

The Republican National Committee “formally decided Friday not to partner with CNN and NBC News for any presidential debates during the 2016 election cycle, a rebuke of the networks’ plans to air programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton,” the Washington Post reports.


“Top RNC leaders voted unanimously on a resolution stating that the national party will not partner with the networks nor sanction any primary debates they plan to sponsor and broadcast.”

A proposed amendment to the Alabama Republican Party bylaws “would allow the removal of the Alabama College Republicans chairwoman, who spoke out in favor of same-sex marriage in June, from the party’s steering committee,” the Birmingham News reports.