Stunning comments from Donald Trump's daughter-in-law,
Laura Trump, who now runs the RNC about voting in
America.
They're from a new video that's been posted online.
In it, she spells out a goal which,
if achieved, would radically reshape US voting laws and oppose
broad,
new draconian restrictions. And she implies that her
father-in-law is on board.
Once Donald Trump is president of the United States,
once we have a huge majority in the House,
'cause that's also something that needs to happen this election
cycle and we take back the Senate,
then you can change the voting laws.
Then you could have one day of voting.
You could have paper ballots,
You could have voter ID.
It's a breathtaking goal, calling for quote,
one day of voting, meaning an end to early voting
and an and to mail in voting.
Roughly 100 million Americans voted early in 2020.
She's also pushing the right wing plan to enact stricter
voter ID laws,
which would have a disparate impact on communities of color.
It's an extreme agenda. And I should note that later
in that very same video,
Lara Trump inadvertently revealed she understands the importance of early
voting by telling Republicans to vote early this cycle so
the GOP can gain power and change the laws in
the future. And she didn't end at voting laws.
She also talked about RNC plans to train poll workers,
something the Republican National Committee was not able to do
for a long time.
And we are now. There was a moratorium on trained
poll workers.
So these are people who are not just standing in
there kind of looking around.
These are people who can actually go in there and
physically handle the ballots.
They can count the ballots coming in,
count the ballots going out.
And that's not all. Under new MAGA leadership,
the RNC is also bringing a prominent election denier into
its upper ranks,
hiring former Trump attorney and former far right TV host
Christina Bob as,
quote, Senior Counsel for Election Integrity.
Bob worked to raise money for the
GOP's Arizona election audit. She publicly urged Mike Pence not
to certify the 2020 election results.
She even wrote a book called Stealing Your Vote,
which pushed the Big Lie and included an introduction by
Steve Bannon.
It's becoming glaringly apparent that Donald Trump absolutely crushed Joe
Biden in the election.
The Democrats and Never Trumpers installed the Dominion voting system
in key locations with the intent to rig elections.
It's treasonous for our federal government to take away our
rights and hide it from us and lie about it
and rig an election and install an illegitimate president.
That is what happened.
Joining me now is David Jolly,
former Republican congressman from Florida.
He is no longer affiliated with that party.
David, it's good to see you.
I want to play those new comments from Laura Trump
again,
'cause they're that important. And then I want to get
your take on the other side,
take a quick listen.
Once Donald Trump is president of the United States,
once we have a huge majority in the House,
'cause that's also something that needs to happen this election
cycle and we take back the Senate,
then you can change the voting laws.
Then you could have one day of voting,
you could have paper ballots,
you could have voter Idi
mean the perversion, David, of what she's saying with the
backdrop of that music,
That's bizarre, right? But I mean
the, you know, putting that aside,
they're saying it all out loud.
They don't care who's listening.
I mean, David, this is,
this is not funny.
Maybe there are crazy people running the RNC and it's
it's going to get worse.
And I would suggest Laura Trump probably does not understand
the principles of federalism when it comes to the administration
of elections by our states.
But let's take her at her word.
Why are they chasing this when historically Republicans have done
fairly well in early voting and mail in voting,
at least before Donald Trump came on the scene and
told people to doubt it.
They're doing it for two reasons.
One is to sow doubt.
You know, we kind of overlook this now,
but part of Trump's election playbook,
and now his daughter-in-law as a senior official of the
RNC,
is to sow doubt in the minds of Republican voters
about any part of the administration of an election.
So they have a fall back to blame should Donald
Trump indeed lose.
But really what they are doing here is Republicans understand.
They understand that the more voters who vote,
Democrats win. And the best case studies for that are
our presidential elections,
where Republicans have only wanted one popular vote in the
last 30 years.
When more Americans vote, Democrats win.
And So what is behind everything Laura Trump said.
And Republicans voter suppression laws and it going across the
state capitals right now is trying to reduce the number
of Americans to vote so that Republicans have a shot
at being competitive. Because on policies,
Republicans extremist positions are simply out of touch,
and they lose to Democrats when voters actually have the
right to exercise their franchise.
I mean, the irony is not is not lost.
I mean this idea of rigging an election because that's
really what she's proposing,
right? She's she's proposing rigging how the voting system goes
down.
And. But here's the ridiculousness about this position,
right? Because in the last year there are some DC
Republicans,
for example, that are saying that the party actually should
do more to encourage their voters to do early voting.
So what's the logical reason why MAGA leaders are ignoring
those calls?
And then you see Lara Trump say no early voting.
You know it is all informed by Donald Trump's opinion
on this and whoever can figure out what's inside his
head I guess would win the award.
But to your point take the state of Florida where
it was a swing state of purple state.
Now arguably Republicans have taken control taking the Super majority
in Tallahassee and the governorship for,
you know, three or four successive terms.
They used very well. The Republican Party of Florida used
early voting and mail in voting much better than Democrats
did.
And so when Donald Trump recall a few years back
when he threw cold water on this,
it was a lot of Republican state parties who said,
hey, Mr. Trump, do not discourage this because this is
a good tool for Republican parties.
But Donald Trump, so doubt.
And ever since then we have seen the attrition of
Republican voters voting early and by mail.
We have seen Democrats maximizing the opportunity.
Which is why you see Laura Trump saying wait,
wait, wait, If it's a tool by which Democrats can
now beat us,
we're going to see if we can ban it.
And you know, David, it I don't believe in coincidences,
right. And so we're in decision
2024. You have Laura Trump,
now Co chair of the RNC,
Michael Watley, the chair who's an election denier.
You have Christina, Bob, now the quote,
you know, senior person in charge of election integrity
for the party. And then you have Laura Trump talking
about poll workers being trained.
And the thing that kind of stopped me dead in
my tracks is when she talked about having these RNC
trained poll workers physically handling
ballots. And that really kind of,
you know, freaks me out because it's just stacking it,
right. It's them trying to stack it so that legitimate
voting can't take place.
Yeah, you're you're exactly right,
Katie. Why would it be important to Laura Trump to
have mog of Republicans touching ballots?
Think about that. Unless they're actually there to change the
the vote or to somehow impact the election through other
means than the voters actually casting their vote,
Why would it matter the party registration of a poll
worker.
OK, in jurisdictions across the country you have nonpartisan employees,
volunteers who are poll workers.
But then the parties also get to a point in
most jurisdictions,
an observer, where they stand and they watch and they
make sure the administration of the election is done with
fidelity.
Lord Trump is trying to shatter that model and suggest
that they want MAGA Republicans touching the ballot after they're
actually cast by voters.
We know this all leads to one thing.
If Donald Trump loses, he is not going to accept
defeat and he will say he was cheated and the
nation's going to face a crisis.
If he does win, it's likely he tries not to
leave office 4 years from now.
This is the direction Republicans are going.
The entire party owns this,
not just Donald Trump.