Last Updated on February 15, 2024
45th President Trump has endorsed North Carolina GOP Chairman and RNC General Counsel Michael Whatley to replace outgoing failed RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel atop the Republican National Committee. Trump’s endorsement of Whatley comes despite his refusal to investigate fraud-ridden voting machines in North Carolina, issues with his law license that have prevented him from fighting election fraud in court, and electoral mishaps during his time as NC GOP Chairman that include losing seats in Congress and needing National File to bail out the state’s entire 2020 ticket by breaking the Cal Cunningham affair story – before which, the GOP was facing a route.
As the Chairman of the North Carolina GOP, Michael Whatley has failed to secure his state’s elections, including the NC GOP’s own convention, where he “won” a chairman’s vote contest marred by rule violations and even out-of-state vote casting.
In that race, Whatley “defeated” North Carolina Republican John Kane, who has refused to give up his fight to secure the Tar Heel State’s elections and expose the NC GOP as the “wholly owned subsidiary of the RNC” that Kane and many others in the grassroots say it’s become under Michael Whatley.
Through his time as both the NC GOP Chairman and RNC General Counsel – two positions that most Republicans would say should be held by an anti-election fraud crusader – Whatley has refused to take even basic steps to secure North Carolina’s elections.
As John Kane reported in a Substack article:
For more than 5 years, Michael Whatley has possessed the authority to appoint three individuals with the qualifications to fully inspect every aspect of the voting machines used in 78,214 precincts in 42 states and territories; to provide hard, irrefutable evidence of machine vulnerabilities and/or voting fraud, or to debunk those concerns (at least in part) for some of the ES&S and Heart InterCivic machines. Yet, he has refused to do so.
North Carolina law requires every voting system vendor to place its source code in escrow with an independent escrow agent.
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Further, the State chairs of each political party has the right to designate up to three person’s to review and examine all of the information placed in escrow.
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The NC Board of Elections provides a list of approved vendors and voting machines for counties to choose from. Eight different machines from two different vendors are used across North Carolina’s 100 counties: ES&S ExpressVote, ES&S AutoMARK, ES&S DS200, ES&S DS450, ES&S DS850, ES&S Model 650, Hart InterCivic Verity Central, and Hart InterCivic Verity Scan.
According to Verified Voting1 , the same machines are used across 42 states and territories, in 78,214 precincts, with 106,126,558 registered voters.
His refusal to secure his own state’s elections is far from the only issue plaguing Michael Whatley when it comes to fighting election fraud and manipulation, perhaps the two most important issues imaginable going into 2024, given the precedent that was set in 2020.
As National File reported last year, when Whatley was appointed by Ronna Romney McDaniel as the RNC’s General Counsel, he didn’t even have a valid law license, not just rendering him useless in fighting election fraud in court, but demonstrating the depth of his swamp ties:
Though Whatley and the RNC claim that he is an “accomplished lawyer,” he had no law license from January 27th, 2017, until May 23rd, 2023, when he was re-instated to the North Carolina Bar, months after he was hired as the RNC’s General Counsel. According to the results of a search, Whatley has NEVER been registered with the Bar in Washington, D.C., where the RNC is headquartered.
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The February 2023 hiring of Whatley as General Counsel came after he failed to be elected RNC co-Chair, finishing in a distant last place. This was after he’d spent years flooding North Carolina with RNC money and RNC-approved candidates, having served as the Chairman of the North Carolina GOP since 2019.
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Whatley staunchly supported the re-election of RNC Chair Ronna Romney, and Romney has pumped millions of dollars into the NC GOP under Whatley’s watch, even outspending North Carolinians themselves.
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