EXCLUSIVE: new face of election integrity lays out November game plan

Two weeks after Nikki Haley withdrew from the Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump quickly moved to insert himself into the leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC).

Former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, and North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley were named co-chairs, and senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita was named chief of staff. But the changes don’t stop there: Election Integrity staff were asked to reapply, and the department hired Christina Bobb as its new grassroots leader.

Bobb, a former One America News anchor and lawyer for Trump, was named senior adviser to the Republican National Committee’s election integrity team after the campaign’s takeover. With less than five months until the 2024 election, Bobb has gone to work immediately to fill what she calls “gaps” in the former RNC leadership’s election integrity strategy. (RELATED: ‘Vote Fraud’: The Death of the American Voter | WATCH NOW)

“The grassroots has been complaining, the people who have been pleading with the Trump campaign are saying, ‘We’re trying to get involved, but we just can’t seem to get involved. What do we do?’ So my number one priority is making sure that people who want to get involved have a way to get involved with what we’re doing, whether that’s directly with the Republican National Committee or, more likely, with their state party,” Bobb told the Caller.

Since arriving at the RNC, Bob has been solely focused on the grassroots level while other staffers continue to work on the litigation side. Part of the grassroots efforts is the party’s “Protect the Vote” initiative, which helps people across the country register to become eligible to work as poll workers, challengers and observers.

upper Site front pageVolunteers from several states, including Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, are featured. Volunteers can indicate whether they’re interested in being a poll watcher, poll worker or other role. Signers are also asked if they are lawyers or law students.

Republican National Convention Announced The “Protect the Vote” tour will begin on Monday, with party members visiting Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia “to mobilize voters and train volunteers for President Trump.”

“We want to get everybody who wants to be certified certified, we want to get as many people on shifts as we can, we want to get everybody who has the time and space to be certified, so the primary focus of the Republican National Committee is making sure people protect their vote and make sure they get through the Republican National Committee process,” Bobb told the Caller.

“And of course, if you work with state parties, that trickles down to state parties and they’re all part of this, and then state parties ideally run their own operations, so I want to make sure that it’s as robust as possible,” Bob added.

Similarly, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee start Trump Force 47 is an organization focused on mobilizing grassroots supporters ahead of the election, and its website asks signatories if they want to help with a variety of efforts, including calling and lobbying targeted voters, poll watchers and hosting “Trump House Parties.”

Bobb expects to have many volunteers ready to work as poll watchers and staff across the country by November, and as the election draws closer, election day operations will take priority over litigation, he told the Caller.

“I want a massive red wave of volunteers, workers, people actually working in their counties. I don’t want this to be an election where we think, ‘Democrats stole it again.’ We need more people to put into the campaign than ever before. Voting is not enough, sending donations is not enough. I’m so grateful to those who are donating in any way they can. Please, we need your help,” Bob told the Caller.

“But more than that, what we need are people. Whether you have an hour, whether you have two weeks, whatever time you can spare to be part of this process, we absolutely need you,” she added.

The RNC is holding weekly training sessions for volunteers and working to ensure “every legal vote is counted in this election,” Danielle Alvarez, a spokesperson for the RNC and the Trump campaign, told the Caller. In addition to closing gaps at the grassroots level, she added, the RNC’s new leadership for the Trump campaign is working to increase voter turnout in 2024.

Explaining how to vote at a voting booth at Highlands Recreation Center in Denver, Colorado on March 5, 2024. Fifteen states and one U.S. territory will hold primary elections on Super Tuesday, which will award more delegates than any other day on the presidential nominating calendar. (Photo by Mark Piscotty/Getty Images)

“Despite the problems with our election system, we have to play with the cards we’ve been dealt. In this election, the president has made it very clear that all patriots must vote in whatever legal way works for them, whether that’s early voting, voting by mail or voting on election day,” Alvarez told the Caller.

While Bobb continues to work on the RNC’s grassroots strategy, the party is leaning on her as a “spokesperson” for the effort and helping it communicate and work with local activists, Alvarez told the Caller.

“Christina Bobb’s role is two-fold: she is a senior advisor and a grassroots spokesperson for the election integrity program. She has a great deal of credibility at the grassroots level on election integrity issues and is able to effectively communicate this message,” Alvarez told the Caller.

“[She] “It has been a critical communications conduit, working with activists and local populations and connecting with experts on the ground, strengthening our aggressive election integrity efforts in battleground states,” Alvarez added.

While Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee has brought several personnel changes, Bob’s hiring has come under particular scrutiny.

After Bob was hired, the Democratic Party and its media Allies criticized the Republican move. I have written This hiring should “scare” Americans MSNBC He called it a “strange choice.”

“In terms of what the left thinks of me, am I saying the same thing as the media who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop? About 51 intelligence officials? About Joe Biden’s overseas income? About cocaine in the White House? Russian disinformation? Ukrainian disinformation? The Steele dossier? FBI involvement in ‘insurance policies’? The Biden administration’s involvement in censoring speech? The Biden administration’s involvement in dictating content to social media companies? I don’t care at all what they say about me or anything else,” Bob said.

And whatever critics say, some in the legal profession are impressed with the work that has come out of the Republican National Committee since the leadership change.

“Trump and the people he brought with him [on election integrity]”There’s been a lot of emphasis on getting involved in litigation, helping to defend the election reforms that states have passed, and really going after other states that are trying to do bad things, like states like Michigan that refuse to clean up their voter rolls,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s election law reform initiative, told the Caller, adding that the party is emphasizing grassroots activism like it’s never seen before.

A voting booth at a polling station in Clemmons, North Carolina, USA, November 8, 2022. After months of candidates campaigning, Americans will cast their ballots in midterm elections to decide closely contested races across the country. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

The RNC has filed a number of lawsuits since its leadership change, and von Spakovsky pointed to lawsuits the party has filed over state voter rolls. In Michigan, the RNC sued the secretary of state, alleging that voter rolls did not comply with a provision of the National Voter Registration Act that requires voter rolls to keep “true and accurate records of voter registration.” The party also filed a similar lawsuit in Nevada over the handling of voter rolls.

“The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee are much better prepared this time, and while they have a lot of work to do, they’ve done a really good job of hiring the right team and putting the right resources to work to make sure Biden doesn’t steal the election again,” Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and founder of the Article III Project, told the Caller, adding that grassroots efforts have made great strides.

Before the leadership change, Davis, along with other election integrity advocates, had expressed concern about the right’s efforts to prepare for the election. In March, a Daily Caller analysis found that several key battleground states, including those that helped put Biden in the White House, were poised to continue using many of the election procedures that infuriated Republicans in 2020 in 2024.

Regarding its grassroots activities, Whatley previously Said The goal is to have 100,000 poll workers on Election Day.