Lara Trump says RNC will have people ‘who can physically handle’ ballots on Election Day

Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said the national committee will have both poll watchers and people who can “physically handle ballots” on Election Day.

Lara Trump, former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, said, “The RNC should have poll watchers, not just people standing at polling places, but people who can physically handle ballots.” I can now do it,” he told Eric Bolling. She appears on Newsmax on Tuesday.

The RNC and former President Trump’s campaign announced last week that Announcement of “Election Integrity Program” More than 100,000 volunteers and attorneys are “deployed to every battleground state.”

“Every time a vote is cast or counted, Republican pollsters will monitor the process and report any irregularities,” the RNC said in a statement.

pollster,Normally Observe the vote counting process Report any problems to authorities or officials. Cannot touch ballots or machines.

“So the RNC stopped for about 40 years from training the people who actually work at these polling places and the counting centers where mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. “And it gives us great ability as we head into what I think everyone understands to be the most important election of our lifetime,” Lara Trump said. Told.

2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has long promoted false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and rigged against him. Lara Trump, who was endorsed by the former president for the role of head of the RNC, said 2020 was “in the past,” but stressed earlier this month that the RNC “will not leave anything to chance” this fall.

“This election cycle, Republicans will use every legal tactic at their disposal to beat Democrats at their own game, based on each state’s rules,” RNC spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement. Ta. “That includes increasing vote harvesting in states like California and Nevada and appointing Republican poll workers in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Michigan to make voting easier and fraud harder. is included.”

— Updated at 5:19 p.m.