Republican National Committee staff blindsided by layoffs

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By Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein and Jeff Zeleny, CNN

Updated 8:24 AM ET, Tue November 10, 2020

(CNN) A round of layoffs at the Republican National Committee Monday blindsided staff, three sources familiar with what happened told CNN, as President Donald Trump continues his legal push to contest Joe Biden's victory.

The party is in the middle of a fundraising blitz as the national party chair, Ronna McDaniel, is publicly pushing Trump's baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Departments within the RNC were instructed Monday to inform staffers who were being laid off, though the scale of the layoffs vary among the departments. Most stemmed from those assigned to the RNC-Trump Victory program, the joint fundraising effort between the RNC and Trump campaign that served as the ground and field program for the Trump campaign.

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Though the President refuses to accept his election loss, one RNC source put it bluntly: "Layoffs are the logical next step considering the outcome."

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So much for a full-scale RNC response to "voter fraud."

CNN's Mike Warren and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/rnc-layoffs-trump-biden/index.html

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1. They are also losing their health insurance while the Supreme Court

(now stacked with conservative justices) will be deciding whether to overturn the ACA.