Officials attributed the shift in announced plans to the fast pace of the takeover of the Republican National Committee at the start of the week.
Michael Whatley, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, and co-chair Lara Trump greet attendees at the RNC's spring meeting on March 8 in Houston. The Republican Party’s new chairman, Michael Whatley, declared in a Thursday memo that the party would keep open its early-voting program, called Bank Your Vote, and not shutter any of its bricks-and-mortar community centers, contradicting comments by top party officials earlier in the week.
Much of the senior leadership has either left in recent weeks or been fired, and dozens of lower-level staffers were asked to reapply for their jobs.
Leading the charge to change the RNC has been Chris LaCivita, a combative strategist who is working as a senior adviser to both the Trump presidential campaign and the party. Some other Republican leaders have called for less-disruptive changes inside the party.
The initial reports that community centers would close and Bank Your Vote would transition sparked concerns inside the party. It also triggered attacks by President Biden’s campaign, which painted the move in a news release Wednesday as an example of the RNC abandoning its minority outreach program, since many of the community centers are in Black and Latino communities. Republican Party officials have consistently maintained they would continue aggressive outreach to those communities.
“Donald Trump is officially building the RNC in his own image, and gutting the party’s outreach to voters of color is just the tip of the spear,” said Biden-Harris 2024 spokeswomen Maca Casado and Jasmine Harris in a joint statement on reports of the planned closures of community centers.RNC officials said Thursday that efforts to refocus the mission at the existing community centers would continue, aimed more at traditional get-out-the-vote drives as the election approaches.
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