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RNC has been virtually MIA ever since Lara Trump left her post following November 5th. Chairman Whatley already slept on several key house races, and now Florida, but especially Wisconsin stand to be lost or too close for comfort with today’s special races. They have been left virtually bereft of major funding and RNC focus. Trump can’t be expected to handle all that, and laugh at David Hogg and DNC all you want but 2026 is around the corner and leadership is needed ASAP. Who gets to fire and decide those in charge?

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley has agreed to remain in the role following President-elect Donald Trump’s request for him to stay. In a post to X on Wednesday, Whatley said the RNC has “crucial fights ahead,” from “supporting President Trump’s cabinet nominees and preparing for the 2026 midterms, to our ongoing fight for election integrity across America.” “The RNC’s priorities will remain the same: get out the vote, protect the ballot, and raise the money we need to elect Republicans up and down the ticket,” Whatley said in the post. “That’s the strategy which helped re-elect President Trump, flip...

Newly installed Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Whatley on Saturday renewed a previous vow that poll workers are “going to be in the room” when early votes are cast and counted in November. The Hill reports Whatley said the RNC is going to “ensure” each state has “good rules of the road” and “thousands” of attorneys present when votes are being cast to make sure ballots are “protected” and election integrity preserved.

New Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley told the great and good of the New York GOP Thursday night that he wanted to get more Republicans to vote early via mail ahead of the November election — despite previous criticisms of the practice by presumptive nominee Donald Trump. “In order to get out the vote, we’re going to have to work, double down, on registering those new Republican voters,” Whatley told the New York Republican Committee’s annual gala in Manhattan. “We are going to use our technology, and advances in digital data to target those voters, and we’re going to...