Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reportedly said she would step down as chairwoman if former President Donald Trump became the nominee and wanted her out.

McDaniel believes the Republican nominee deserves a chairperson they can trust, so she said she would resign from her post if that was what Trump wished, according to the Washington Post. It looks like this may come to pass, as reports are circulating that McDaniel will step down after South Carolina’s primary on Feb. 24.

Her resignation after many years in leadership came after she faced a slew of criticism from party members and the former president, who has appeared to have changed his tune on McDaniel in recent years due to dissatisfaction with GOP performances in elections.

McDaniel has faced extreme scrutiny for her role as chairwoman, particularly after the GOP’s expected “red wave” in the 2022 midterm elections did not make landfall. Trump has also shown frustration with her handling of RNC debates, none of which the former president attended over his refusal to sign the pledge backing the Republican nominee no matter who the conference selected.

“People are really mad at you,” Trump told McDaniel in a phone call last fall, referring to private and public critiques of her leadership, according to the Washington Post. “They’re mad at you.”

People close to Trump told the outlet that McDaniel’s departure is being driven by a number of factors, including the former president’s disapproval of the primary debates, cash flow issues, negative media attention, and election defeats that he does not blame himself for despite several of his endorsed candidates losing to Democrats in 2022.

The Trump campaign and McDaniel clashed heavily during the 2020 election over claims the RNC was not financing the former president’s reelection campaign sufficiently, while the conference argued it was doing all it could and the problem was with how Trump’s operations were being run. Following his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and present alternate electors, which McDaniel initially helped arrange, she backed away from defending Trump following the increase in false claims.

Many Republicans view her actions following the 2020 election as the nail in the coffin for her time as chairwoman.

“We saw the RNC not do anything beforehand and afterward,” Stephen Bannon, who served as Trump’s White House chief strategist, told the outlet, pushing the debunked claim that Biden lost. “That’s the burning heart of this issue. This is a MAGA revolt to take over the Republican Party.”

Republican donors and supporters have also ramped up criticism of McDaniel, with sources telling the Washington Post that donors in Houston last fall told Trump they may not donate moving forward over frustrations with McDaniel’s leadership. Trump was reportedly taken aback by this news.

It seemed to be that McDaniel saw the writing on the wall in November last year. McDaniel had been unhappy for months, complaining to “almost anyone who would listen,” a source told the Washington Post. She often would question whether she should have sought a fourth term and claimed she did not expect her tenure to go this way, another source said.

Kim Borchers, a national committee member from Kansas, told the outlet she would receive an onslaught of emails and calls attacking McDaniel, and she only responded to about 100 of them. Borchers said the critiques derived from the right flank of the party, and she could often convince critics otherwise.

“Critics have been beating her up since the day she won that last election,” Borchers said. “It is just terrible.”

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After all these scandals and roadblocks, sources close to the former president said Trump was forced to “defend her constantly.” In January, Trump started pushing that a change was needed, and McDaniel flew to his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

In February, Trump endorsed North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley to replace McDaniel as the leader of the RNC. He also will support Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law, as RNC co-chairwoman. Currently, Whatley serves as general counsel for the RNC, and Trump praised him last week for being “committed to election integrity, which we must have to keep fraud out of our election. so it can’t be stolen.”