Trump, RNC To Dispatch 100,000 Pollwatchers, Attorneys In Election Integrity Effort

The Republican National Committee introduced a significant election integrity mission this week that may make the most of round 100,000 ballot watchers and attorneys to watch the polls in swing states, starting with early voting dates and lasting by means of the November election.

The large-scale operation comes following allegations of widespread voter fraud by former President Donald Trump and his authorized groups, claims which have to date did not yield any proof that might rise up in court docket. The GOP had pledged to dispatch some 50,000 ballot watchers to watch the balloting course of through the 2020 cycle, NBC News reported.

“Having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on Election Day,” Trump said in a press release. “Republicans are now working together to protect the vote and ensure a big win on November 5th.”

The authorized group and extra volunteers will oversee varied phases of the electoral course of, together with early voting, election day voting, logic and accuracy machine testing, mail poll processing, and post-election canvassing, recounts, and audits, the report mentioned.

“Every ballot. Every precinct. Every processing center. Every county. Every battleground state. We will be there,” RNC co-chairwoman Lara Trump mentioned within the launch. “The RNC is hiring hundreds of election integrity staff across the map – more than ever before because our Party will be recruiting thousands of more observers to protect the vote in 2024. These campaign officials in states are tasked with recruiting, training, and when possible, shifting poll watchers and poll workers day in and day out.”

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The attorneys might be stationed at processing facilities and polling websites in battleground states and can collaborate with secretaries of state workplaces and county boards of elections, Just the News added.

The attorneys and volunteers will determine and report any irregularities in voting. They can elevate questions or issues through the designated “Election Integrity Hotline,” connecting to a command heart the place assigned legal professionals will supply steerage to ballot watchers on the required procedures and assist make clear methods to handle, resolve, or escalate any points that come up, the RNC mentioned.

Earlier this month, Lara Trump declared her father-in-law to be probably the most victimized individual within the historical past of the nation as he continues to face a number of prison fees, most of which might land him in jail.

During a phase with Newsmax TV’s Carl Higbie, the host said, “You guys, since 2015, since he came down the escalator, have battled fake information and yet, with less money than everybody else, have come out on top most times.”

“If you wanna look at a family, and I’ll say a man in Donald Trump, who has nothing but misinformation and disinformation that they like to say on the other side of the aisle thrown at him every single day,” Lara Trump responded.

“I mean, there’s never been anyone in history, I don’t think, that has taken as much incoming as Donald Trump, and yet every day it feels like we are vindicated in so many spaces because at some point, Carl, the truth ultimately comes out,” she mentioned.

In conclusion, the RNC official added, “People are starting to wake up because you can only lie to people so long.”

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Lara Trump nails it: RNC co-chair says her father-in-law is probably the most persecuted man within the historical past of the nation.

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s hush cash trial is about to start in Manhattan on Monday after 12 jurors and 6 alternates had been chosen this week.

Michael Avenatti, who represented grownup movie star Stormy Daniels in an unsuccessful lawsuit towards Trump earlier than being convicted of varied crimes, spoke,e to MSNBC’s Ari Melber from the California jail the place he’s serving his 19-year sentence on Tuesday night, telling the host he’s a kind of who doesn’t consider Trump will get a good trial.

“I don’t think that he can get a fair trial in New York. And to the people who claim that in fact, he can get a fair trial in New York with a New York jury, I would ask them, if they were to go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow and find out that the case had been moved to Mississippi or Alabama, would they still think the trial was going to be fair?” Avenatti mentioned.

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