Heading into the 2024 presidential election, the Republican National Committee is haunted by the ghost of 2020. Donald Trump’s various efforts to question the integrity of that election – in which Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory rested on a razor-thin 40,000 vote margin across three states – loom large. A number of key Trump claims about widespread fraud were laughed out of the court of public opinion and dismissed in the courts. And the traumatic events of Jan. 6, 2021, have poisoned the well for even good-faith discussions about the need for election integrity.