Steele said he has told committee members, “Yeah, I’m thinking about it, and I’ll let people know what I’m doing.

“I’m not playing coy or cute,” Steele added. “I’m going to assess and evaluate what I think the party needs based on how we do this week, where I think the party needs to go based on how we do this upcoming week, what additional work still needs to be done.”…

“The RNC is not weak,” he said. “My job description is very simple: Raise money, win elections. … We’re gonna win the House. We put the emphasis on rebuilding the party’s infrastructure; we invested significantly in that over the last two years. We’ve raised a significant amount of money. We put the money back out into the states.”