FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. President Donald Trump is facing a second impeachment in his final days in office after inciting a riot at the Capitol that killed a police officer, but his partys national leadership on Friday reelected his hand-picked chair to another term anyway.

Ronna McDaniel, like many others in the Republican National Committee, spoke out against the mayhem created by thousands of Trump supporters whom the president had encouraged to block Wednesdays certification of the November election.

This committee rightly condemned the violence in the strongest possible terms, she said at the groups winter meeting at the Amelia Island Ritz-Carlton. I call on individuals to respect law enforcement.

But she had nothing but praise for the man who repeatedly encouraged his most fanatical supporters to converge on the nations capital for a wild protest designed to undo by intimidation the election that Trump had lost by 7 million votes.

McDaniel said she had been a stay-at-home mom making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when Trump called on her.

And theres not many people who would say, lets take that woman, a mom from Michigan, and have her run the national party, she said. I think that says a lot about his support of women.

She followed that by pledging to go to state legislatures and make sure that what we saw in this election never happens again apparently echoing Trumps numerous and often-repeated lies about a stolen election that enraged his supporters into attacking the Capitol in the first place.

McDaniels public support for Trump matched the general tone from the 168 members from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five overseas territories.

Bill Currier, of Oregon, said it was unfair to blame Trump for inviting his followers to come to Washington to express their support for election integrity and that Trump had never supported violence. I hope its been pretty clear that the party, at every level, condemns the violence, he said.

Mary Buestrin, of Wisconsin, said she was heartbroken by the afternoon-long riot, but claimed that Trump bore no responsibility for the unrest. Oh, absolutely not, she said.