Lara Trump’s comments illustrate a key dynamic in the Republican Party in 2024: As she sought to cast the 2020 election as “in the past” and champion voting by mail, re-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for her father-in-law on the stump.
Asked about the former president’s past comments undercutting mail-in voting, Lara Trump said he is singing a different tune.
“Well, I actually think if you talk to him right now, you will see that he is very much embracing early voting,” she said.
“I think that the message that the people of this country have sent to Donald Trump, and you saw it in the primaries, is that they want to get out and they want to vote for him as soon as they possibly can,” she continued. “And if that means Day 1 of early voting for people, he’s very happy for them to go out and do it.”
Last weekend, meanwhile, the former president said the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley wouldn’t have been in America “if the election weren’t rigged, because we didn’t allow people like that into our country.”
He regularly refers to the 2020 election as “rigged” on his social media channels. And, most critically, he faces charges in Washington, D.C., and Georgia related to his attempts to overturn the election results.
New leadership at the RNC
Lara Trump officially stepped into the role of co-chair this month at the RNC’s spring meeting, after former chair Ronna McDaniel and co-chair Drew McKissick stepped aside for the leadership team blessed by Donald Trump. Former North Carolina GOP chair Michael Whatley is now the group’s chairman, the top slot at the national party organization.
Asked what she would say to voters wary of a Trump takeover of the RNC, Lara Trump made an appeal based on her experience on the past Trump campaigns, noting that her father-in-law had tasked her to help him win her home state, North Carolina, twice.
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