Reince Priebus: ‘GOP Has To Do A Full Autopsy On 2012 Election’ [Video]

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus appeared on Piers Morgan’s show Tuesday night to say exactly what conservative pundits and party members have been saying since Election Day. The GOP really needs to figure out why it lost and where they’re headed.

Since the 2012 election, conservative figures have been trying to figure out what’s wrong with their party, their message, and how to re-brand their philosophy to make it appealing to minority voters. Priebus sounded off on the party’s post-election soul-searching with Piers Morgan, and also talked about the issue on everyone’s mind: The looming fiscal cliff.

“I don’t think you can draw any quick conclusions other than the fact that we lost and we know that,” Priebus remarked when asked about the GOP’s “pretty poor defeat.”

“But in order to get back in the game, you’ve got to look at and do a full autopsy of what happened,” he said, stressing the need for a persuasive four-year plan from the GOP: A “long, sustained, year-by-year campaign,” focusing on state races in between presidential elections, and then 2016.

Morgan asked Priebus whether or not choosing Mitt Romney as the GOP’s nominee in 2012 was a “mistake.” Priebus responded that Romney “would have made a great president” and said that the polls reflected it.

“I think that what we saw in Team Obama was something that was pretty good in the sense of a four-year, long campaign, on the ground, in the communities,” Priebus said, adding that the GOP is looking at replicating that strategy.

“What we can conclude is that we’ve got to be better,” he said, “and that’s something that we’re committed to doing.”

Here’s video of Reince Priebus and Piers Morgan via Mediaite: