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RNC under Lara Trump sent call to about 145,000 phones spreading 2020 election lies
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We all know the problems. No photo IDs, unsecured ballot drop boxes, mass mailing of
ballots, and voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non-citizens are just a few
examples of the massive fraud that took place,” the RNC call said. “If Democrats have
their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn’t even an American
citizen.”
The claim of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election marks a significant shift in messaging
for the RNC because lies about the 2020 election had not been a consistent theme in
its messaging since Donald Trump left office.
But the call’s message is largely consistent with the views publicly espoused over the
past four years by Lara Trump, who was elected as co-chair in early March as part of
Donald Trump’s takeover of the GOP. Lara Trump has a long history of echoing his
election fraud claims, according to a CNN KFile analysis of her past statements as a
commentator and surrogate for the former president.
“I’m sure you agree with co-chair Trump that we cannot allow the chaos and questions
of the 2020 election to ever happen again,” said the call, which was obtained by CNN’s
KFile from the anti-robocall application Nomorobo, which estimated 145,000 calls were
sent with the message from April 1-7.
It comes amid previous CNN reporting about the RNC asking employees who are
reapplying for their jobs whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen in an
apparent litmus test for hiring. The RNC denied any such litmus test existed. Lara Trump
and new chair Michael Whatley succeeded Drew McKissick and Ronna McDaniel, who
had earned the ire of the former president because of his dissatisfaction with how the
RNC handled claims of fraud around the 2020 election, CNN previously reported.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, as even some state GOP
election officials and former Trump Attorney General William Barr have acknowledged.
The former president and his supporters filed more than 60 court cases in six key
battleground states following the election and lost every one of them. And, they have
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From November 2020 to February 2024, Lara Trump propagated the narrative of
Democratic cheating in the 2020 presidential election. And even after she was elected
co-chair and said claims of a stolen election are “in the past,” she didn’t repudiate
those baseless accusations.
“Well, I think we’re past that. I think that’s in the past. We learned a lot. Certainly, we
took a lot of notes,” Trump said in an NBC interview when asked whether claims of a
stolen 2020 election would be the official position of the RNC in 2024. She went on to
tout lawsuits across 23 states “to ensure that it is harder to cheat and easier to vote,”
while raising questions about pandemic-era voting procedures during the 2020
election.
In the same interview, Trump also added the GOP needed to “trust mail-in voting.”
Neither the RNC nor Lara Trump responded to multiple requests for comment.
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Lara Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee spring meeting on March 8, in Houston.
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A long history of spreading election lies
As recently as February 2024, Lara Trump said she did not believe Biden received 81
million votes in the 2020 election.
“Does anyone actually believe that in 2020, 81 million people were so inspired by a guy
who could only get 10 people (to attended events) …that he had the most massive
turnout in the history of elections?” she said at a Trump event in South Carolina just
days before she announced her campaign for RNC co-chair. “No, we don’t believe that.”
On her internet show and podcast, and in public events, she often spread outlandish
and nonsensical claims about the 2020 election.
On an episode of her show that aired on December 30, 2020, Trump agreed with her
co-hosts that the election did not pass the “smell test” and falsely suggested that dead
voters helped Biden win.
“Now, I don’t know if this is true, but somebody sent me this. Donald Trump got 74
million votes. There are 133 million registered voters in the United States. If every single
registered voter went out and voted, which we know is basically impossible, doesn’t
happen, there would only be 59 million votes left for Joe Biden. So how the heck did he
get 81 million votes?” she said.
The comments cite a widely debunked analysis that misrepresents the number of
people eligible to vote.
“You’re discriminating against all the dead people, Lara. How dare you!” said one co-
host.
“Oh yeah, that’s right. That’s true,” she responded.
A CNN analysis previously found no evidence to support this claim, debunking the
misinformation spread by Trump supporters online in the aftermath of the 2020 results.
The 2020 election saw a record-breaking turnout, with 155 million people casting their
votes, as reported by the US Census Bureau. This marked the highest voter
participation of the 21st century, with 66.8% of eligible citizens aged 18 and older
voting.
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Though nothing was abnormal or illegal about the process, Lara Trump has also referred
to the counting of votes nefariously.
“We gotta make up so much for all the cheating,” Trump said on her podcast in
September 2023. “We know the Democrats love to do that. We need to go into this
thing with such a big lead that they’re like, ‘oh my God, we can’t do a 3:00 a.m. spike
with this. We’re never gonna make it.”
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