Republican National Committee members voted to appoint North Carolina Republican Party head Michael Whatley and Lara Trump as chair and co-chair of the organization
Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump attend a Super Tuesday election night watch party at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 5.cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills.
“The goal on November 5th is to win, and as my father-in-law says ‘bigly’,” Lara Trump said, promising that “every single penny of every dollar raised” would go toward the goal of winning the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate for Republicans. One of the new leadership’s most pressing tasks will be money. After recording its lowest fundraising year in 2023 in a decade, the RNC had less than $9 million in the bank at the end of January, a little more than a third of the Democratic National Committee’s $24 million, federal filings show.
“This isn’t just about right versus left, Republican versus Democrat,” she said. “It’s about good versus evil.” Henry Barbour, an RNC member from Mississippi, drafted a resolution ahead of this week’s meeting that would have barred the committee from covering Trump’s legal bills, arguing that all money should go toward winning the election.
Solomon Yue, an RNC committeeman from Oregon, said, however, he has spoken with some 20 members who agree with him that the organization should pick up the bill for Trump’s legal troubles.
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