'What's going on here?!' CNN host astonished by new RNC 'litmus test'

CNN anchor John Berman was stunned by new reporting that former President Donald Trump's newly-installed loyalists at the Republican National Committee are now grilling prospective hires to make sure they believe conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

This comes as the RNC, now headed by a number of hand-picked pro-Trump figures like his own daughter-in-law, has faced pressure over its struggle to fundraise, and controversy for a now-reversed attempt to shut down outreach centers to nonwhite voters.

"Now the Trump loyalists and the Trump family have taken over the party apparatus, they're asking would-be staffers, do you think the 2020 election was stolen?" said Berman, turning to CNN reporter Alyana Treene. "Of course, it wasn't. So why are they asking this? ... what's going on here?"

"Over the past few weeks, Trump advisers have been asking current and potential employees at the RNC what their views are of fraud surrounding the 2020 election and, essentially, was the election stolen, and that's according to sources familiar with the interview questions," said Treene.

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She added that "they viewed it as an apparent litmus test for potentially being hired, and some of these people also described it as unusual for a job interview question ... [and] this new hiring question comes shortly after the Trump campaign and the RNC effectively merged their operations."

Treene noted that RNC spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez responded to the reporting by saying, "Candidates who worked on the frontline in battleground states or are currently in states where fraud allegations have been prevalent were asked about their work experience. We want experienced staff with meaningful views on how elections are won and lost and real experience-based opinions about what happens in the trenches."

"I do just want to take a step back here and give you some context around this," she added. "This comes as the RNC, one of their key focuses ahead of the 2024 election is going to be on what they call election integrity. And really focusing on potential claims of fraud in the upcoming election. Now, we know that Donald Trump, one of his key issues with the RNC over the past few years is that he did not like the way that they handled his false claims of fraud surrounding the 2020 election, and we know that that was part of the reasoning that he really — has relationship with former RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel fractured ... and so it's definitely a key focus for the new leadership at the RNC."

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