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		</div><p>US president-elect Donald Trump has picked Michigan Republican chief Ronna McDaniel to chair the national party, in part as a reward for netting the state&#8217;s first election victory in 28 years.</p>
<p>The choice of Ms McDaniel, 43, as Republican National Committee chairwoman was confirmed by a person familiar with Mr Trump&#8217;s decision.</p>
<p>Ms McDaniel, the niece of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, also earned credit with Mr Trump by supporting him faithfully after he won the party&#8217;s 2016 presidential nomination &#8211; despite sharp criticism from her famous uncle.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Ronna McDaniel, what a great job you and your people have done,&#8221;</i> Mr Trump told thousands at Deltaplex Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I was very impressed with you. She didn&#8217;t sleep for six months!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s decision also marks a key victory for outgoing RNC chairman Reince Priebus.</p>
<p>As Mr Trump&#8217;s incoming White House chief of staff, Mr Priebus, who guided the at-times unwieldy candidate through the election, supported Ms McDaniel as his replacement. Other Trump loyalists were urging him to name Nick Ayers, a close adviser to vice president-elect Mike Pence.</p>
<p>While Mr Trump&#8217;s team has said there is no outright power struggle, Mr Trump&#8217;s deliberations over secretary of state were seen as an indicator of influence between Mr Priebus and senior adviser Steve Bannon.</p>
<p>Mr Priebus was seen as supporting Mr Romney to become Mr Trump&#8217;s secretary of state. On Tuesday, Mr Trump named Exxon Mobil boss Rex Tillerson as his choice for the nation&#8217;s top diplomat.</p>
<p>Ms McDaniel would seem to validate Mr Priebus&#8217; performance as the chairman who turned around the cash-strapped committee and ended its presidential losing streak. She would probably maintain the strategy of early spending in states, digital data and local party infrastructure, RNC insiders said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;They said a Republican could never win Michigan,&#8221;</i> Ms McDaniel told the audience in Grand Rapids last Friday. <i>&#8220;I knew better. You knew better and Donald Trump knew better.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>For her work in Michigan, part of a swathe of northern states that had eluded Republicans since the 1980s, Ms McDaniel is the right call, said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee member from Mississippi.</p>
<p>Mr Trump defied decades of precedent by also carrying Pennsylvania and Wisconsin &#8211; once-powerful, working-class Democratic states where manufacturing in smaller cities has declined.</p>
<p>Ms McDaniel will face immediate pressure to hold on to control of Congress in 2018 <i>&#8220;I think she can help us hold a lot of these Rust Belt Democrats who voted for Donald Trump with good leadership and execution,&#8221;</i> said Mr Barbour.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Plus, she was willing to step out and support our nominee when her very famous uncle was doing the opposite. Now, that&#8217;s leadership.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s choices for RNC chairman and other party leadership positions carry immense sway with its members, who will vote on the team early next year.</p>
<p>Should the committee approve Mr Trump&#8217;s recommendation, Ms McDaniel will become the second woman to be elected RNC chairman, and the first in 40 years.</p>
<p>That is a good sign for the party and Mr Trump, said Michigan Republican Bob LaBrant, considering the 2005 recordings of Mr Trump making sexually degrading remarks that were released during the campaign.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;That sends a signal we need to send right now,&#8221;</i> said Mr LaBrant, former political director for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. <i>&#8220;And Ronna is the right one to carry the message.&#8221;</i></p>
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