About
Lara Trump is a former television producer who serves as co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) after her father-in-law, Donald Trump, handpicked her for the six-figure position in March 2024. Her ascension came after longtime RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel and Co-Chair Drew McKissick were forced to resign during an unusual election-year shake-up by Trump and his far-right allies. During her tenure from 2017–24, the RNC had dutifully supported Trump’s false claims of election fraud and downplayed the severity of the insurrection but the former president still felt that McDaniel didn’t go far enough in backing his lies about a stolen election.
Lara Trump has been a part of the Trump administration since her father-in-law’s first presidential campaign. She led the Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour during the 2016 campaign, and subsequently produced “real news” content for the president after he took office. In addition, she took an active role in Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, serving as a “senior adviser.”
In her latest role, Trump is expected to serve as “a public face for the RNC,” according to CNN, focused on fundraising, public relations, and speeches. She has also spoken in favor of using RNC funds to cover the costs of her father-in-law’s mounting legal bills.
After the 2020 presidential election, Lara Trump followed the former president’s lead and adhered to the GOP playbook by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the process and making claims of fraud unfounded by facts.
January 6, 2021
- Lara Trump spoke at the Save America rally just before the march to the Capitol and subsequent violence that quickly erupted. Addressing the crowd of MAGA supporters just hours before the attack on Congress, she vowed, “This fight has only just begun. Let’s be very, very clear about that.”
The Big Lie
- After Biden won the election, Lara Trump used her Facebook show and podcast, along with appearances at public events, to spread outlandish lies about the 2020 election.
- In a December 10, 2020, episode of her podcast, she claimed the odds that Biden had actually won in swing states were “one in one quadrillion to the fourth power.”
- On an episode of her show that aired on December 30, 2020, Trump falsely suggested that dead voters had helped Biden win, repeating a widely debunked theory that misrepresents the number of eligible voters in the U.S.
- “We gotta make up so much for all the cheating,” Trump said on an episode of her podcast in September 2023. “We know the Democrats love to do that. We need to go into this thing with such a big lead that they’re like, ‘Oh my God, we can’t do a 3:00 a.m. spike with this. We’re never gonna make it.’”
- At a February 2024 Team Trump event in South Carolina, Lara Trump asked rhetorically, “Does anyone actually believe that in 2020, 81 million people were so inspired by a guy who could only get 10 people [to attend events] …that he had the most massive turnout in the history of elections? No, we don’t believe that.”
- An April 2024 RNC robocall sent out on her behalf falsely claimed that the Democratic Party was guilty of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election and that in 2024, “if Democrats have their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn’t even an American citizen.” As reported by CNN, the robocall continued by saying, “I’m sure you agree with co-chair [Lara] Trump that we cannot allow the chaos and questions of the 2020 election to ever happen again.”
- Shortly after Trump was elected co-chair, the RNC announced an “election integrity” initiative to mobilize thousands of polling place monitors, poll workers, and attorneys in swing states during the November election. “We can never go back and repeat 2020, but we can learn the lessons from 2020,” Trump said at the June 2024 kickoff event for the initiative.