BIG RED SEZ: The plans and strategies outlined in this exclusive interview with Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle could not have been described less a week ago; they simply DID NOT EXIST.

By Matthew Boyle | Breitbart News

Newly-elected Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Whatley and co-chairwoman Lara Trump, in their first joint interview since locking down the positions on Friday, explained to Breitbart News that a “new dawn” has set in at the GOP’s main party committee and everything is about winning in November.

Whatley and Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and wife of Trump’s son, Eric Trump, were elected on Friday by members of the RNC as the new chair and co-chair of the RNC.

They replace now former chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and were supported by the former president, who just locked down the GOP presidential nomination this week with blowout victories on Super Tuesday.

Whatley and Trump told Breitbart News the focus from the party is now exclusively on winning in November.

“This year, the next eight months, are all about making sure that we win in November,” Whatley said. “Everything we do is going to be focused on winning.

“We are going to have to get out the vote and we are going to have to protect the ballot. Every dollar we raise and we spend at the RNC is going to be focused on those two missions.

“We are going to work very, very closely with the president’s campaign, and we’re going to make sure that we are a seamless operation. At the end of the day, the RNC was built 146 years ago with one purpose, which was to elect Republican presidents.

“We also know we’ve got Senate races and House races that are really truly important for us, so we are going to work up and down the country to win up and down the ballot.

“But the way we’re going to do that is getting out the vote and protecting the ballot.”

Lara Trump said that Whatley’s history as chairman of the North Carolina GOP has given him a background in election integrity and, combined with a renewed fundraising push she will help lead, the party is now in prime position to defeat Democrat President Joe Biden.

“I would second that as well,” she told Breitbart News. “I think the great news for the RNC is that Chairman Whatley has a great background in this.

“If you look at North Carolina in 2020, my father-in-law is the first to give him great accolades on what he did to protect the vote, and people felt very confident that their vote counted and there was no funny business. That’s very important, and it’s critical to the future of this country. We’ll be laser-focused on that.

“I just held up a check for $100,000 as we made our announcement that the two of us were officially in these positions because I think raising money is obviously something else that we’ll focus on a lot.

“We are in a bit of new dawn here at the RNC. We’re going to bring a lot of people back in to donate—small dollar, large dollar. We’re going to be focused on that as well.”

Whatley said that his history of working with Lara Trump will make the process of integrating the RNC with the Trump campaign and other party committees and candidates up and down the ballot much easier.

“You asked about us being kind of a team and how we planned on working together,” Whatley said. “I think the key is we have already worked together in 2016 and 2020 when I was running North Carolina. Lara was there a lot. She was an incredible asset for the campaign, for the president and his team.

“We are really, I think, in sync. The vision I think we have and we’ve been talking a lot over the last few weeks is absolutely right on point. Collectively, I think the answer is we are going to work all day every day to make sure we are going to win in November.”

Whatley added that the team is broader than just the RNC.

“We are one team. It’s not just a team with Lara and I,” Whatley said. “It’s a team between the RNC and the president and his campaign. There is a lot that needs to be done over the course of the next 241 days to make sure we have what we need to win.

“We need to be working every day on the ground in battleground states and in battleground districts across the country to turn out the vote and protect the ballot. We are going to work together and make sure we’re getting done everything that needs to get done and that we’re blocking and tackling and dotting every I and crossing every T.”

Lara Trump added, too, that she and Whatley will be making changes and moves wherever they deem they are necessary to reconfigure the party for success.

“I think that’s right and I think our roles in how all this plays out will naturally kind of take shape, and I think I’ve been a very forward-facing figure for my father-in-law these last two campaign cycles, and I’ll continue on that front as well,” she said.

“But obviously I’ve had experience as a senior adviser to his campaign for three years with election day operations. We’ll see wherever we need to fit in and wherever we need to move around and make changes, we’re going to do that as well together as a team. I think Monday we’ll figure out a lot more of that and see where it takes us.”

Whatley said one of the major moves that the RNC will soon be making is building out what are called joint fundraising agreements, or JFAs, between the RNC, other party committees and state parties, and the Trump campaign. Those allow for increased maximum donation totals, so big donors can help the effort big time.

Whatley said to expect JFAs to come soon, and by working closely with the new GOP nominee, Donald Trump, he expects fundraising to take off.

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