Lara Trump says RNC must use ‘authorized ballot harvesting’ for first time to stay competitive against Democrats

Lara Trump, just lately elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee, stated the GOP must use “legal ballot harvesting” to stay competitive against Democrats forward of November. 

“We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess,” Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, stated in a current interview with the Washington Examiner. “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.” 

She emphasised the significance of early voting and mail-in voting the place attainable.

“That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catchup on Nov. 5 with the Democrats,” she stated. 

“We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting – something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do,” Lara Trump instructed the Examiner. “And then come Election Day, and you’ll see that, I think, it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out.”

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Explaining her imaginative and prescient for the RNC after longtime chair Ronna McDaniel stepped down on Friday, Trump stated her aim is to “have people’s trust restored in our electoral process.” 

“Truthfully, people have felt like they don’t know if/when they donate their money to the RNC, it will ultimately go to the causes that they care about,” Lara Trump stated. “I hope to be there as someone who will ensure that, indeed, every single dollar donated goes to making sure we win on Election Day – at the top of the ballot and down the ballot.”

The Republican National Committee voted Friday to set up Donald Trump’s handpicked management crew, as the previous president closes in on a 3rd straight presidential nomination.

Lara Trump, the newly elected RNC co-chair, holds up a donation examine through the normal session of the group’s spring assembly on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican, was elected the get together’s new nationwide chairman in a vote Friday morning in Houston. 

Lara Trump, who’s married to the previous president’s son Eric Trump, was voted in as co-chair.

“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th president of the United States,” Whatley instructed RNC members in a speech after being elected.

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Michael Whatley speaks through the state Republican Party Convention on June 10, 2023, in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)

Lara Trump is predicted to focus largely on fundraising and media appearances. She emphasised that shortly after she was voted in, taking time in her inaugural speech as co-chair to maintain up a examine for $100,000 that she stated had been contributed that day to the get together. 

The useful head of the RNC will probably be Chris LaCivita, who will assume the committee’s chief of employees function whereas sustaining his job as one of many Trump marketing campaign’s prime two advisers.

McDaniel was handpicked by Trump to lead the committee seven years in the past, however she fell out of favor with Trump’s MAGA motion following GOP losses over the previous few years. She alluded to that in her goodbye speech Friday, telling the members that she worries most about “internal cohesion” heading into the election.

“We have to stop attacking other Republicans,” she stated. “If we spend our time attacking each other, we guarantee the Democrats are going to win.”

Ronna McDaniel provides her final speech as RNC chairwoman through the spring assembly on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

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She additionally instructed the get together that it wants to interact unbiased and swing voters, warning: “We don’t win if we only talk to each other.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.