Lara Trump says RNC must use 'legal ballot harvesting' for first time to stay competitive against Democrats

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Lara Trump, recently elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said the GOP must use "legal ballot harvesting" to stay competitive against Democrats ahead of November.

"We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess," Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, said in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner. "Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt."

She emphasized the importance of early voting and mail-in voting where possible.

"That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catchup on Nov. 5 with the Democrats," she said.

"We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting – something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do," Lara Trump told the Examiner. "And then come Election Day, and you’ll see that, I think, it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out."

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