Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists: ‘Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor, you’re a racist and so forth,’ J. Christian Adams said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/council-national-policy-video/2020/10/14/367f24c2-f793-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html

CNP member Rachel Bovard “described Ginni Thomas as a crucial link to the White House. ‘She is one of the most powerful and fierce women in Washington,” Bovard said. “She is really the tip of the spear in these efforts.’”

Council for National Policy CNP “ was launched during the Reagan administration by figures in the religious right to bring more focus and force to conservative advocacy.”

Speaking of the ‘80s there’s “Ralph Reed, chairman of the nonprofit Faith & Freedom Coalition, told the CNP audience...
“And so our organization is going to be harvesting ballots in churches,’ he said.”

“‘We’re going to be specifically going in not only to White evangelical churches, but into Hispanic and Asian churches, and collecting those ballots.’

Bannon & Kellyanne Conway were members in “the years leading up to Trump’s election”

“In another February session, Kelly Shackelford was introduced as CNP vice president, chairman of CNP Action and leader of the First Liberty Institute, another organization registered as a tax-exempt charity.”

“‘Some of us literally opened a whole operation on judicial nominations and vetting,’he said. ‘We poured millions of dollars into this to make sure the president has good information, he picks the best judges.’”

As Senator Whitehouse was saying, follow the money: “Shackelford said he is among the nonprofit leaders now coordinating with the White House to support the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett”