{"id":12772,"date":"2023-12-13T03:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/rnc-youth-committee-members-resign-over-dissatisfaction-with-efforts-to-attract-young-voters\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T03:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T03:59:29","slug":"rnc-youth-committee-members-resign-over-dissatisfaction-with-efforts-to-attract-young-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/rnc-youth-committee-members-resign-over-dissatisfaction-with-efforts-to-attract-young-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC youth committee members resign over dissatisfaction with efforts to attract young voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Five members of the Republican National Committee\u2019s youth advisory council have resigned amid dissatisfaction with GOP\u2019s efforts\u2014or lack thereof\u2014to draw in young voters ahead of the 2024 election, Fox News Digital has learned.<\/p>\n

The RNC created the council, co-chaired by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., in a commitment to youth voter outreach. The council is made up of millennials and Gen Z individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But five members are resigning from the 16-member board due to, what they call, a \u2018lack of vision\u2019 from the party.<\/p>\n

\u2018When first approached about the committee that your team was forming, we were honored to join and excited about what we believed was a serious undertaking by the RNC to win the hearts and minds of young voters across the country,\u2019 the five members who are resigning wrote in a letter to RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our decision to withdraw from the committee is one that has not been made lightly and is the result of a lack of organization, lack of tangible goals and benchmarks, and general lack of vision for the Advisory Council,\u2019 they wrote.<\/p>\n

The members\u2014 all \u2018elected officials\u2019 from Iowa, West Virginia, Missouri, Florida and Texas\u2014said that upon joining, it was their \u2018understanding that our proven abilities to fundraise, mobilize voters, and win elections would be utilized to gain a larger share of the youth vote.\u2019<\/p>\n

The members said that during their \u2018short tenure\u2019 on the board, they have \u2018not been updated on any efforts employed by the RNC\u2014if any exist at all\u2014to specifically reach young voters, have not been utilized as elected representatives of our state, have not been assigned or delegated any tasks, and have not even received proper invitations to council meetings.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The members said the \u2018lack of organization and communication from the RNC\u2019 makes them feel that the council is \u2018nothing more than another failed fundraising ploy by the RNC.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018My colleagues and I refuse to be used as shiny objects in the solicitation of funds by the RNC when there is no work being done to advance the mission of the Advisory Council,\u2019 they wrote.<\/p>\n

The members stressed that the RNC needs to \u2018win over and mobilize young voters across this country\u2019 in order to \u2018course-correct and restore our great country to the force it once was.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018After seeing the way the Youth Advisory Council has been run since its formation, we are sending this letter to express the lack of confidence we have in the RNC\u2019s ability to win over and mobilize young voters,\u2019 they wrote.<\/p>\n

They added: \u2018It is our hope that you will take the concerns expressed in this letter and our departure from the Youth Advisory Council as a call to reform and reestablish this council as one that is actionable and effective and as an invitation to join us in the critical work of reaching young voters in tangible, measurable ways before election day in November 2024.\u2019<\/p>\n

But members of the council who are staying on are completely at odds with their resigning colleagues, and claim they \u2018weren\u2019t contributing\u2019 while they served. \u00a0<\/p>\n

A person familiar with the RNC\u2019s Youth Advisory Council told Fox News Digital that all five members of the council who are resigning were \u2018repeatedly asked to help with both the social media and messaging projects, each individual either refused to participate or were assigned to a project and did not return multiple requests for input.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Our Youth Advisory Council has been working tirelessly to engage with the grassroots, bring young voters to our debates, get them committed to vote early through the RNC\u2019s Bank Your Vote program, and working on guides for our Republican candidates on how to reach young voters and the pressing issues that will motivate us to vote next year,\u2019 RNC Youth Advisory Council Co-Chair Brilyn Hollyhand told Fox News Digital. \u2018We are excited for the work ahead of the council in 2024 and won\u2019t be distracted by a select few who weren\u2019t contributing in the first place and no longer want to be a part of it.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The letter is signed by members Joe Mitchell from Iowa; Caleb Hanna of West Virginia; Mazzie Boyd of Missouri; Carolina Amnesty of Florida; and Caroline Harris of Texas.<\/p>\n

Harris told Fox News Digital that the advisory committee was \u2018always just a PR stunt the RNC could use to mislead donors.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018After meeting once or twice back in the summer, there has not been one follow-up meeting, not one phone call, nor has the committee been invited to participate or advise on anything else within the RNC,\u2019 Harris said.<\/p>\n

\u2018The RNC understands the young voters as much as they understand the Trump movement,\u2019 Boyd told Fox News Digital. \u2018They are still stuck in the Bush Era and haven\u2019t been able to get out.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Hanna told Fox News Digital that the advisory council is \u2018based on a lie.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018A lie that the RNC actually wants to reach young people or even wants to learn how,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019s very revealing and disappointing to see the RNC\u2019s incompetence up close and personal.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Council co-Chair CJ Pearson said: \u2018Resigning from a job you didn\u2019t show up for isn\u2019t news. It\u2019s a distraction from the important work we do, and will continue to do, as we march towards 2024.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Council member Riley Gaines also praised the work of the RNC, saying that \u2018the Republican Party has never been more committed to bringing more young voices into the Party than it is this cycle.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

An RNC official told Fox News Digital that the council is currently working on rolling out a \u2018best practices guide for social media and messaging guidance on how to talk about young voters\u2019 most pressing issues.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The official also said the council has been involved in promoting the RNC\u2019s \u2018Bank Your Vote\u2019 effort, which is the party\u2019s initiative to get voters to commit to voting early. The official said council members have provided their input to the RNC on how best to reach young voters in that effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Some groups that claim to turn out young voters, like Turning Point, have failed cycle after cycle,\u2019 RNC spokesperson Keith Schipper told Fox News Digital. \u2018That\u2019s why the RNC has stepped up and created the Youth Advisory Council to fine-tune effective youth get-out-the-vote and messaging strategies to grow our Party.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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EXCLUSIVE: Five members of the Republican National Committee\u2019s youth advisory council have resigned amid dissatisfaction with GOP\u2019s efforts\u2014or lack thereof\u2014to draw in young voters ahead of the 2024 election, Fox News Digital has learned. The RNC created the council, co-chaired by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., in a commitment to youth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}