Welcome to the final Jolt of a truncated week ahead of Good Friday and Easter weekend. This is Noah Rothman filling in for Jim Geraghty one last time before his return on Monday.
On the menu today: Tuesday and Wednesday saw a flurry of reporting on how the Trump campaign and the GOP’s national political committees, which it now controls, will litigate the claim that the 2020 presidential election was marred by malfeasance.
Rehashing 2020 . . . Again
Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey was first out of the gate with a late Tuesday dispatch revealing that the Republican National Committee, which is now co-chaired by both Trump “loyalist” Michael Whatley and Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, had transformed Trump’s belief that he was robbed of victory in 2020 into a litmus test for new hires.
“‘Was the 2020 election stolen?’ one prospective employee recalled being asked in a room with two top Trump advisers,” the report read. Others who experienced the RNC’s vetting process described the ...
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