REPORT: RNC To End Its Minority Outreach Program

The Daily Beast reports:

After years of accusations of financial mismanagement, the Republican National Committee is overhauling its 2024 election operations—a full-on MAGA makeover that the RNC claims will curb excessive spending and steer as much money as possible to supporting Donald Trump’s campaign.

But it appears that one of those strategic spending moves may have a profound effect on a successful minority outreach program, which two people with knowledge of the plans characterized as self-defeating, potentially erasing gains with groups of gettable new voters who have cooled on the Democratic Party.

The Daily Beast reached out to an RNC spokesperson for comment, who provided a statement from Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung. The statement called the criticism of the community center closures “racist” and “complete bullshit,” but did not deny that the program had shut down.

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NEW: “Make the RNC White Again” — that’s how one source summed up the Trumpified RNC’s new decision to cancel a successful minority voter outreach program that the RNC had just been planning to expand. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/RDonHf8s91

— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) March 13, 2024