Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump stated that the main focus of the party is “protecting the vote” in the upcoming elections in November.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, what her top priority is now that she was elected as the RNC co-chair. She referred to recent statements made by Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this month, who mentioned that the Justice Department will contest states that are implementing “discriminatory, burdensome and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot.”
“That is a huge problem. We have three main areas we need to concentrate on at the RNC to ensure victory on November 5, increase voter turnout, ensure the vote is safe, and raise funds. But I would argue that perhaps the most important of those three is ensuring the vote is safe, election integrity,” Lara Trump said on “Sunday Morning Futures,” in response to Garland’s comments.
“We have to make sure that when people go to vote, they feel like their vote matters, that they are motivated to vote. We can never allow what happened in 2020 and the doubts surrounding that election to ever happen again,” she added.
The former president and his allies alleged that there was fraud in the 2020 election and that the election was taken from him. There is no widespread evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.
Trump, the newly elected co-chair of the RNC, stated that the committee has set up an “election integrity division,” which she described as a “nationwide network of volunteers” including poll watchers and trained poll workers.
“And we currently have 78 lawsuits out right now in 23 states across this country to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. And here’s what I want to say. To anyone out there who is thinking about cheating in an election, we will go after you. You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is not worth it,” she said.
“Every person in this country, Maria, whether you are a Republican or Democrat, should want free, fair and transparent elections,” she added.
