Whine from sour grapes tastes as sweet.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The former chair of the Florida Republican Party compared the bloodbath of firings at the Republican National Committee under new chair Lara Trump is like 'a funeral' and leading the party the wrong way.
New Trump-aligned leadership at the Republican National Committee are preparing to purge at least 60 staff members across multiple departments within the party, which is now being led by former President Trump's daughter-in-law.
Two people close to the RNC and Trump's campaign said the process of removing dozens of officials began Monday, according to Politico.
Al Cardenas, who runs the GOP in the Sunshine State and is the husband of prominent anti-Trump 'The View' co-host Ana Navarro, told MSNBC Friday that this is being done in order to use the national party's funds to fight former President Trump's election grievances.
'They're moving a small squad to integrate with a presidential campaign by name only. They're concentrating on lawyers and election fraud,' he said.
Al Cardenas, the former chair of the Florida Republican Party compared the bloodbath of firings at the Republican National Committee under new chair Lara Trump is like 'a funeral' and leading the party the wrong way.
Cardenas - who represented the party as a delegate at every Republican convention from 1976 to 2008 - believes the firings may be closer to 90 people and said he was heartbroken over what's happening to the party.
'This is nonsense, I mean, it's only spending millions to perpetuate the fallacy that there was election fraud in 2020,' he said.
'That's all. That's all it is, but, you know, replacing the RNC and what it does, to me, I've given it 40 years of my life. It breaks my heart.'
Cardenas, a senior advisor to Jeb Bush's failed 2016 campaign, frets over what will happen to the party down ballot, noting how the RNC is supposed to work 'on voter registration' and turning people out.
'It takes away a major component of getting your communities involved in the political process, and now it's all going to be dictated from the top, and you wonder what our future will be down the ballot,' he said.
He called the whole process like being 'at a funeral' and said: 'You know, 1854, the birth of the Republican Party, 2024, the demise of the Republican Party.'
The former president's takeover of the RNC was solidified last week when during the spring meeting in Houston, Texas his daughter-in-law Lara Trump was elected co-chair and loyalist North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley was elected to replace Ronna McDaniel.
Former Chairwoman McDaniel announced she would end her tenure at the RNC after months of pressure from Trump for her to step aside after his allies turned on her. 
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