Republican National Committee members have received a three-page memo from Chairman Michael Whatley announcing and explaining various aspects of the RNC’s merger with the Trump campaign.
The memo arrives days after former President Donald Trump clinched the GOP nomination and nearly a week after Donald Trump’s handpicked team took the reins.
“As is tradition and governed by applicable law, the RNC is merging operations with the Trump campaign. We are now a united operation, and a united front,” Whatley wrote.
Whatley and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, were elected to succeed the outgoing chair and co-chair without any challengers on March 8. The memo highlights the committee’s key priorities, including a focus on claims of election fraud.
“Our election integrity priorities this cycle will include a broader effort over the coming months to challenge voter identification and signature verification rules which were put into place for the 2020 election. The RNC’s new posture as it relates to this litigation will be an aggressive, proactive effort to ensure that it will be easy to vote and hard to cheat,” Whatley wrote.
Trump himself was drawn to backing Whatley, the former North Carolina Republican Party chairman, in part because of his work and focus on claims of election fraud, CNN previously reported.
The memo also announces the hires Whatley has made, including a slate of new lawyers who will focus on election fraud claims. It comes days after the RNC began laying off dozens of staffers. The cuts, which included top officials in communications, the political department and the data team, went beyond the norm and underscored the committee’s lackluster fundraising.
Whatley’s memo also said the RNC is planning to keep…
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