New RNC hires are asked if they think the 2020 election was stolen: Lara Trump’s hiring practices and new leadership team are revealed after Ronna McDaniel’s spectacular ouster
New leadership at the Republican National Committee is asking potential employees what they think about the results of the 2020 presidential election as a condition of their hiring, multiple reports confirm.
During job interviews for a job at the RNC, potential hires are asked whether they think the 2020 election was stolen, people familiar with the process say.
But even the new RNC co-chair, Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, says it’s time to move on from 2020.
“I think we’re past that. I think that’s a thing of the past.” she told NBC News when asked if the RNC’s position will be that the 2020 election was not fair.
In addition, the new RNC is considering substantially gutting its Washington DC headquarters and employees are expected to move to an office near Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. The Washington Post reports this.
Reports follow the election of new leadership within the Republican Party after former chair Ronna McDaniel resigned earlier this month following months of pressure from the MAGA world to leave her post.
According to multiple reports, the new RNC leadership is asking potential hires during their job interview if they think the 2020 election was stolen. Pictured: Michael Whatley (left) was elected the new RNC chairman earlier this month and Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara (right) was elected co-chair
It’s not unusual for those at the RNC to emulate the ideals of the party’s presidential candidate — but many argue that their position on Trump’s insistence that there was fraud in 2020 has become a litmus test for their hiring
Michael Whatley, a longtime Trump ally and former North Carolina GOP chairman, was chosen to replace McDaniel. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law was elected co-chair of the RNC.
It is not unusual for a party to intervene in the presidential candidate’s campaign, but with four months to go until the Republican convention, it seemed premature to many to assemble a full MAGA team at the spring meeting in Texas earlier in March.
The RNC did not immediately respond to a request from DailyMail.com about the reported litmus test.
However, RNC spokesperson Danielle Alvarez sent a statement to other media outlets when asked about the reports, saying, “Candidates who have worked on the front lines in battleground states or are currently in states where allegations of fraud exist were asked about their work experience. ‘
“We want experienced staff with a meaningful perspective on how elections are won and lost, and opinions based on real experience on what’s happening in the trenches,” Alvarez said.
Some prospective employees recalled the questions they were asked during their job interview to join the RNC.
“Was the 2020 Election Stolen?” was a question someone recalled during an interview attended by two Trump advisers.
A former RNC employee said that while the question was open-ended, it was clear what they wanted to hear.
“If you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?” they asked.
Former GOP strategist Doug Heye, who served as communications director at the RNC, told the Post that the Republican Party has long expected staffers to support the positions of its presidential candidates.
“You are there for that specific reason: to support the candidate and agree with the worldview,” he said.
“The problem with Trumpism is that despite bringing in very smart and very capable people, if you want to play Trump’s game, you have to support him in everything he says,” Heye acknowledged. “Claims about stealing elections are kind of the last frontier of that.”
McDaniel joined NBC News as a contributor after leaving the RNC, it was announced last week. But after just one appearance on the network in an interview with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, McDaniel was dropped.
“I) you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?” posed a former RNC employee
Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel stepped down from her position after pressure from the Trump world. She launched her new NBC News contributor gig with an appearance on Sunday morning’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, but days later she was dropped from the new gig.
On Sunday, McDaniel and Welker got into a heated argument over the former RNC chairman’s past positions, in which he claimed the 2020 election was stolen and that Jan. 6 prisoners should be released. McDaniel said she had to “take one for the team” as the voice of the Republican Party, but made clear she thinks President Joe Biden rightfully won in 2020 despite “problems.”
Welker pushed McDaniel on her flip-flop and after the interview, fellow NBC host Chuck Todd said she was spitting out the position taken by the people who paid her.
McDaniel’s ouster came after a slew of on-air protests from longtime hosts who objected to McDaniel’s hiring at the left-wing network because they didn’t like that she had pushed Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Those who publicly spoke out against their NBC bosses for hiring McDaniels included Chuck Todd, who said executives owe Welker an “apology” for soft-launching the new gig on her show.
Others who spoke out included Rachel Maddow, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Jen Psaki, who also came out of the partisan world when she was hired directly as President Joe Biden’s press secretary.