Notable Stories

The RNC Communications team successfully placed or influenced hundreds of local and national news stories in the past month. This is in addition to Op-Eds from Chairwoman McDaniel, Co-Chair Tommy Hicks,  and other members from our team. Take a look at some of the key stories and columns below:

National


State-Specific


Ballot Integrity

  • This fight is not over. President Trump continues to fight for us, and we will continue to fight for him.
  • Democrats challenged the election results for two years and wasted millions of dollars to find no evidence of collusion or wrongdoing in 2016.
  • The American people are entitled to an honest and transparent election and the President is entitled to have this process play out.
  • Allowing these recounts and lawsuits to run their course will ensure that all Americans can be confident in the results of the election.
  • The margins are slim and there are a number of irregularities that we must look into.
  • As of 11/15, we have a combined 450 sworn declarations in: PA, GA, MI, NV, WI.
  • Additionally, there have been over 13,000 incident reports filed in five states - PA, GA, MI, NV, WI - since Election Day.
  • There are legal teams on the ground in PA, GA, MI, NV and WI to fight back against Democrat efforts to disenfranchise voters.
  • How can I get involved? To support the President, you can: Visit GOP.com to donate.
  • If you see signs of voter irregularities and fraud, please report them to http://djt45.co/stopfraud

Georgia

  • All ballots are being recounted by hand. Under Stacey Abrams’ guidance, Democrats in Georgia have been attacking the safeguards of our election processes, through lawsuits, for the last several years. The hand recount will be finished by 11/18. We must ensure there is transparency in the recount process and mail-in ballots are verified.
  • We have close to 1,000 volunteers located throughout the state at every canvassing site.
  • In the top 30 most populous Georgia counties, we have the legal maximum number of observers in place.
  • The hand recount maybe a good start but is not transparent and does not fully satisfy our concerns that initially prompted our hand count request due to a lack of training and directives.

Michigan

  • The Trump campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan citing multiple witness accounts of irregularities, incompetence, and unlawful vote counting.
  • In Wayne County, Republican poll watchers were denied their legal right to monitor the election and purposely kept in the dark, both literally and figuratively, with poll workers blocking windows and pad-locking doors.
  • Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Zachary Larsen filed an affidavit that he was concerned ballots in Wayne County were being counted without verifying that voters were in fact eligible to vote.
  • The team has found roughly 1,700 abandoned properties in Wayne County. The RNC Data Department is matching abandoned property addresses that are linked to registered voters and checking to see if those voters showed up as voting early or absentee.
  • After taking a sample of a list of potential dead voters that voted in the election, we identified three that cast a ballot. As a result, we are now taking a deeper dive into other potential deceased voters who cast ballots in Michigan.
  • To date, there have been 3,149 incident reports filed. The MIGOP Save the Vote Hotline is continuing to receive incident reports and review which ones merit an affidavit.
  • To date, our team has received 162 sworn declarations.
  • On Friday, November 13, the Crawford County Canvass found 132 votes for President Trump that were not previously reported. The board of canvassers corrected the issue and sent the results to the Michigan Secretary of State. The Secretary of State website has not yet reflected this change on their website.

Nevada

  • There are a number of reports of irregularities that we are looking into.
  • Clark County lowered the standard on the machine that verifies signatures, leaving voters vulnerable.
  • One such victim was Jill Stokke, a 79-year-old legally blind Las Vegas woman who found out when she went to vote in person that a mail ballot had been illegally cast in her name and the signature verified, thus stealing her vote.
  • A Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist worked with nine Clark County voters to cast a ballot with blatantly incorrect signatures. Eight of the nine votes were accepted and counted.
  • There have been multiple verified instances of deceased Nevadans having a vote cast in their name, including Rosemarie Hartle, a 52-year-old Las Vegas woman who died of breast cancer in 2017.
  • We have 150 volunteers and staff looking into 7,000 mail ballots cast in the general election that were returned as undeliverable in June’s all-mail primary election.

Pennsylvania

  • The Trump Campaign and RNC are involved in several lawsuits and are working to ensure only valid absentee and provisional ballots are counted.
  • In a huge victory for election integrity, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania sided with the Republican National Committee and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. in the challenge to Secretary Boockvar’s unlawful extension of the deadline for some absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification.
  • The court ruled that Secretary Boockvar “lacked the statutory authority” to unilaterally extend the deadline set by law and ordered that the segregated ballots should not be counted.
  • On Sunday, November 15th, the Washington Post ran a complete mischaracterization of the Trump campaign’s litigation in Pennsylvania, erroneously claiming the campaign had dropped the claim of 682,479 ballots processed illegally and in secret.
  • The Washington Post’s claim is categorically false.
  • The Friday ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in an unrelated case.
  • The campaign strategically decided to restructure its lawsuit to rely on claims of violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The claim that ballots were improperly processed and counted is still very much part of the suit.
  • Paragraph 4 of the amended filing reads: “Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties alone received and processed 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots without review by the political parties and candidates. These are unprecedented numbers in Pennsylvania’s elections history. Rather than engaging in an open and transparent process to give credibility to Pennsylvania’s brand-new voting system, the processes were hidden during the receipt, review, opening, and tabulation of those 682,479 votes.” See also paragraphs 132-150.
  • References to the improperly counted ballots are repeated throughout the filing, with paragraph 150 specifically stating that all factual allegations in the preceding paragraphs are incorporated within the Equal Protection claim.
  • Issues in Pennsylvania include lack of transparency, observing in seven big Democrat counties, ballot curing in those counties, one set of rules for Democrats and one set for Republicans.
  • Regardless of the absolute necessity of uniform standards across the state, there was one system for Democrat counties in Pennsylvania and another system for Republican counties.
  • In seven Democrat counties, Democrat voters received text messages and emails -- sometimes even sent by Democrat campaigns -- warning them that their ballots would be canceled and how to resolve it in a timely manner. Republican voters, though, even some who verified in person that their vote had been cast, have records of receiving notifications of canceled ballots after the date to cure with no timely notification. Some voters, Democrats, were allowed to cure their ballots, but others, Republicans, were not, representing a possible equal protection violation.
  • Illegal ballots were counted in some Democrat counties, but ballots of the same nature were not counted in Republican counties. This represents tens of thousands of improperly counted ballots in Pennsylvania.
  • Philadelphia had 17 “early in person mail voting” locations throughout the city where people could register, request their mail ballot, and vote their mail ballot all in one transaction. None of these centers permitted poll watchers. The Trump campaign has no idea how many illegal votes were cast in these locations.
  • In Philadelphia, the Sheriff reportedly refused to enforce the court order allowing lawful observers to enter.
  • Pennsylvania Republican ballot count observers were in some cases 100 yards away from the counting process. Even a distance of 12 feet would make it impossible to properly observe. This lack of transparency and hindrance to observing the counting of 627,000 ballots is a huge problem.

Wisconsin

  • The canvas is ongoing in the state. Once that is finished, we can file a recount request beginning around November 18th.
  • There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious concerns that need to be further examined.
  • An unprecedented 243,000 Wisconsinites circumvented photo ID requirements by marking themselves as “indefinitely confined” ahead of November’s election – a majority of them newly declared this status this year. That throws the legality of these ballots into question.
  • This includes 25,000 individuals who had little to no voting history prior to November.
  • This was a staggering increase from the nearly 72,000 voters who indicated that they were indefinitely confined in 2019.
  • This also arose after the Dane County clerk advised voters to illegally mark themselves as indefinitely confined due to the onset of coronavirus ahead of the April 7th primary.
  • Wisconsinites deserve answers on whether or not these ballots were cast illegally.
  • In Wisconsin, we have received hundreds of incident reports following the November 3rd election, and dozens of sworn declarations.

Op-Eds

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

RNC Co-Chair Tommy Hicks

RNC Spokesperson Liz Harrington

RNC Spokesperson Paris Dennard

Videos

RNC-produced video content continues to receive millions of views each month. Here are some of the most viewed videos from the past month: