Lara Trump: ‘We are leaving nothing to chance’ this election
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump argued election integrity is “vital” in this current cycle, vowing to dedicate resources to ensure nothing is left to “chance.”
“But when you talk about election integrity, it is vital. It is the No. 1 thing that we are focused on, aside from getting out the vote, which, of course, Donald Trump himself will do for us,” Lara Trump said Sunday during Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“We are ensuring that this election, we are leaving nothing to chance,” she continued. “We never before at the RNC have had an Election Integrity Division. All of our resources, we can put into this division as needed.”
She pointed to former President Trump’s campaign’s fundraiser a day earlier, in which her father-in-law was expected to rake in about $50 million. Some of that funding will help ensure poll workers are trained and lawyers can be in every necessary voting precinct, Lara Trump said.
“We are making sure that we leave nothing to chance, because we have to understand the importance of this election,” she said, adding later, “People are not sitting on the sidelines anymore. They understand what’s at stake. It’s a must-win election. And from the election integrity perspective, we’re focused on it like a laser at the RNC.”
RNC Chair Michael Whatley, who appeared Sunday alongside Lara Trump, said the committee is working with state legislatures, boards of elections and secretaries of states to ensure “we get the rules of the road right.”
“And if they’re not, we’re going to go file lawsuits. We have already filed over 80 different lawsuits in 24 states to make sure that we have the ground ready to go for safe elections,” he said, adding later, “What we want are fair, accurate, secure and transparent elections. And when we have it, then we’re going to protect the sanctity of that ballot. We’re going to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
Whatley and Lara Trump were both endorsed by the former president and were elected as the RNC’s newest leaders last month.
The two have made election integrity a central focus for the RNC in the wake of continued skepticism over accurate election results.
In an earlier interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Whatley sidestepped questions over if the 2020 election was stolen and turned his discussion into ensuring election integrity.
Asked if if the 2020 election was stolen, he said, “I think there were irregularities. I think there were issues that we saw across the country. We need to have election integrity.”
“So that we do not have drop boxes, for example, that we have voter ID, for example, that absentee ballots have to have a witness signature, have to have a signature by the voter,” he continued.
When pressed again if the 2020 election vote count was “accurately counted” or “rigged,” Whatley pointed to his vote for former President Trump.
“Look, I was a member of the Electoral College. I proudly cast my vote for Donald Trump, the Electoral College number came back,” he answered. “Joe Biden is the president, and we are working all day, every day now to make sure that we’re going to win this election in 2024.”
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