Lara Trump says 2020 election is 'in the past' even as Donald Trump keeps bringing it up

RNC co-chair Lara Trump said the party is "past" litigating the 2020 election, as her father-in-law prepares to face charges stemming from his post-election actions.

Newly minted Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said Tuesday that she believes the party is "past" litigating the 2020 election, comments that come as her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, prepares to face two juries on charges alleging that he illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election results.

"I think we’re past that. I think that’s in the past," Lara Trump told NBC News when she was asked whether it will be the RNC's position that the 2020 election was not fairly decided.

"The past is the past, and unfortunately, we had to learn a couple of hard lessons in 2020," she continued. "Believe me, we are applying them all across this country in every single state, and we want to ensure that, indeed, every single legal vote is counted.”

Lara Trump’s comments illustrate a key dynamic in the Republican Party in 2024: As she sought to cast the 2020 election as “in the past” and champion voting by mail, re-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for her father-in-law on the stump.

Last weekend, meanwhile, the former president said the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley wouldn’t have been in America “if the election weren’t rigged, because we didn’t allow people like that into our country.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/lara-trump-2020-election-rnc-mail-voting-rcna144984

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