By Zeeshan Aleem

It's been roughly a month since former President Donald Trump's hand-picked allies took the reins of the Republican National Committee — the most tangible example of Trump's ever-tightening grip on the GOP's party apparatus. But the takeover isn't going well.

The committee's new chairman, Michael Whatley, and co-chair, Lara Trump, immediately ordered a purge of the organization after they assumed their positions. Dozens of RNC staffers were either laid off or asked to resign and reapply for jobs. In a harrowing development, as my colleague Hayes Brown has discussed, applicants were asked for their views on whether the 2020 election was rigged.

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