Tag Archives: RNC

Stolen Election Beliefs Now Part Of RNC Hiring Criteria

The Washington Post reports: Those seeking employment at the Republican National Committee after a Trump-backed purge of the committee this month have been asked in job interviews if they believe the 2020 election was stolen, according to people familiar with the interviews, making the false claim a litmus test of sorts for hiring. In recent days, Trump advisers have quizzed …

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NBC News Hires Ronna McDaniel As On-Air Contributor

The New York Times reports: Ronna McDaniel, who stepped down as chairwoman of the RNC this month, is joining NBC News as an on-air contributor, the network said on Friday. The hire adds a reliably conservative voice to NBC’s stable of political analysts. Ms. McDaniel is also expected to provide commentary on MSNBC, NBC’s left-leaning cable cousin and a network …

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AP: Agreement Diverts RNC Funds To Trump’s Legal Bills

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the RNC directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former President’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press. The unorthodox diversion of funds to the Save America PAC makes it more likely …

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RNC Sues Nevada Secretary Of State Over Voter Rolls

Courthouse News reports: The Republican National Committee, along with the Nevada Republican Party and a registered voter, sued Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar and other election authorities Monday claiming several counties have outdated or inaccurate voter rolls. “Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls, and that’s why the National Voter Registration Act requires state officials to keep their rolls …

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Oops: RNC Chair Says We’re “Better Off” Under Biden

“At the end of the day, this comes down to a very simple contrast between President Trump and President Biden. Were you better off four years ago than you are today? The answer for this entire country is no. I mean, yes. We are better off today. Or we will be better off under President Trump than we will under …

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RNC Reverses On Ending Minority Outreach Programs

The Washington Post reports: The Republican Party’s new chairman, Michael Whatley, declared in a Thursday memo that the party would keep open its early-voting program, called Bank Your Vote, and not shutter any of its bricks-and-mortar community centers, contradicting comments by top party officials earlier in the week. The initial reports that community centers would close and Bank Your Vote …

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RNC Hires QAnon Homocon Riot Attendee Who Quit GOP Gig After Posting Porn He Filmed In Their Office

The cultist site Florida’s Voice reports: Republican National Committee Cochair Lara Trump announced she will soon be contacting conservative activist Scott Presler to set up a “legal ballot harvesting division” with Presler playing a major role. The announcement comes just after the outage of old RNC leadership and as Presler has pleaded with the national party for months to allow …

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RNC Sues MI Sec Of State Over Voter Registration Rolls

The Hill reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Wednesday to get the state to review its voter registration rolls. The committee alleges the state has “failed to live up” to the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) requirement that voter registration rolls must be clean. The RNC’s lawsuit comes just …

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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 …

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QAnon/OAN Host To Run RNC “Election Integrity” Unit

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump took charge of the Republican National Committee this week with the political equivalent of shock and awe — leaving dozens out of work, revamping strategic priorities and raising fears among some former officials about the party’s future support for down-ballot candidates. Trump’s team, led by campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, is bringing in …

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Lara Trump: Maybe 9/11 Was A Federal “Inside Job”

The Meidas Touch reports: RNC co-chair Lara Trump went on Alex Stein’s show on the Blaze network and was asked if she believed 9/11 was an inside job. Lara Trump said “never say never” and talked about being about to see the inner workings of the United States government before stating she personally didn’t believe it was an inside job …

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Trump Team Fires Dozens In “Bloodbath” For The RNC

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the Republican National Committee on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials, according to two people close to the Trump campaign and the RNC. All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. …

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Lara Trump: RNC Will Launch Ballot Harvesting Push

“We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess. Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt. We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting — something that has never been done by the RNC, but I …

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Trump Hires Lawyer To “Watch The Money” At RNC

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s new team at the Republican National Committee has tapped former RNC executive Sean Cairncross to help run the party’s operations and watch its spending in the run-up to the November election, two people familiar with the move tell Axios. Cairncross is a lawyer with a reputation of enforcing financial discipline — someone who can “watch …

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TODAY: Trump’s Takeover Of RNC Becomes Official

CNN reports: Donald Trump is wasting little time putting his imprint on the Republican Party just days after becoming its presumptive presidential nominee. As the Republican National Committee meets here Friday for its spring meeting, members are set to elevate Trump’s endorsed candidates – North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley and the former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump – to serve …

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RNC Rejects Vote To Ban Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

The Hill reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) failed to earn enough support from states to bring a resolution to ban paying former President Trump’s legal bills to a vote. Henry Barbour, who serves as Mississippi’s national committeeman, confirmed to several news outlets that the resolutions he drafted that would have prohibited the committee from covering the former president’s growing …

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Haley: I’m No Longer Bound By RNC’s Loyalty Pledge

The Washington Post reports: Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said Sunday that she no longer feels bound by the earlier pledge made by her and other presidential hopefuls to support the GOP’s eventual nominee . The Republican National Committee made that pledge a key condition for candidates who wanted to participate in the party’s debates. Haley acknowledged in an …

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Carville To Lara Trump: “Steal Every Dollar You Can”

“These people want to be stolen from. That’s the long and short of it. The people that give Trump money or the RNC money are begging to be stolen from. And Trump is going to accommodate them. They’re very blunt and very upfront about what they doing. “I know a lot of Republicans, friends of mine from my days in …

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Ronna McDaniel To Resign As RNC Chair On March 8th

The New York Times reports: The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee said on Monday that she would step down in just over a week, as former President Donald J. Trump seeks to install a new handpicked leader for the national party ahead of the general election this fall. The decision is not a surprise. The chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, told …

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Gingrich Attacks RNC Member Over His “Destructive” Resolution Against The RNC Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

“Why has Henry Barbour, Republicans National Committeeman from Mississippi, become an ally of Joe Biden. Barbour’s two proposed RNC resolutions defy reality and only help President Biden. “It is ironic that Barbour would propose these anti-Trump resolutions as President Trump wins his fifth straight contrast (?) and is declared the winner in Nikki Haley’s home state one minute after the …

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