EXCLUSIVE: RNC Recruited Hundreds Of Thousands Of Volunteers, Thousands Of Lawyers To Ensure Election Integrity
The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) director of election integrity and senior advisor for election integrity sent a memo Monday to RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump showing they have recruited hundreds of thousands of volunteers, thousands of attorneys and held thousands of trainings ahead of the November elections, the Daily Caller has first learned.
According to the memo from the RNC’s director of election integrity, Gineen Bresso, and senior advisor for election integrity, Josh Helton, the RNC has “devoted unprecedented resources” to making sure election integrity is in place across the country. The memo explains their achievements and what else they hope to accomplish before the elections. The memo also states that the RNC has hired over 115 paid staff to facilitate volunteer training at the state level.
As of Monday, there have been 219,712 total volunteers recruited, 2004 total trainings held, and 5,077 total attorneys recruited, according to the memo.
The memo also goes on to explain the field program, legal program and communications program in regards to election integrity.
“Our field program is designed to recruit and train poll watchers and recruit poll workers whom we then submit to relevant in-state credentialing authorities. We do this by holding continuous recruitment and training events both in-person and online. Combining these two populations, we are proud to share that we have recruited more than 200,000 volunteers in total nationwide,” the memo reads.
It then says that the field program is divided among 18 states, which are categorized as the following:
- Presidential Battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
- Reach States: Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia
- Additional Key Senate States: Florida, Montana, Ohio, Texas
- Additional Key Congressional States: California, New York
- CD States (States with congressional districts that have their own electoral votes): Maine, Nebraska
READ THE MEMO HERE:
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The legal program includes links to key ongoing cases across the U.S. as well as key victories. The RNC says they have engaged with 123 lawsuits in 26 states ahead of the election.
“We have a team of full-time lawyers on staff at RNC headquarters, who are in direct and constant contact with our retained in-state counsels across the country. Retaining in-state counsel gives us a key edge in litigation: our field lawyers are barred in their states, familiar with the situation on the ground, and provide tremendous value by managing stakeholders, identifying legal opportunities, and providing key information as legal issues that will decide this election evolve in key states,” the memo continues.
“Thus far in the cycle, we have engaged in 123 lawsuits in 26 states, 82 of which are in battleground states, designed to uphold basic election integrity safeguards and protect the system from Democrats devoted to creating election day chaos.”
As for the communications program, the election integrity team for the RNC believes the “centerpiece” of their communications strategy has been to generate local press coverage by holding “Protect The Vote Tour” events across the country, saying there have been over 20 stops on the tour so far and linking to local outlets covering the events.
“In addition to this local-press driven engagement, you have both conducted hundreds of interviews with national and local press to drive our election integrity messaging into every major media market in America. Specifically, Chairman Whatley and Co-Chair Trump have combined for 446 interviews since early March mentioning election integrity,” the memo states.
“The RNC’s election integrity efforts – both in the field and in the courtroom – are unprecedented. As voting begins, we feel confident in our program’s ability to see, engage, and resolve issues that arise. We have lawyers on call, volunteers trained, and a communications apparatus capable of delivering our message,” it concludes.
Whatley and Trump told the Caller:
“With less than five weeks until Election Day, we are confident in the capacity of President Trump and the RNC’s election integrity program to win court battles and put volunteers in the room as votes are being cast and counted. Our program is designed to deliver fair, accurate, secure, and transparent elections — the American people deserve nothing less.”
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