Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early
Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early
Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early
Campaign toils to convince Republicans to vote early, crucial to winning the election, while ensuring they don’t annoy Trump
Donald Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting have increasingly caused heartburn for the Trump 2024 campaign as they attempt to undo the self-sabotage by ramping up operations in key battleground states encouraging Republicans to vote early and by mail ahead of the presidential election.
The former US president has continued his crusade in recent months: in December he called for the end of mail-in voting entirely, before claiming in an interview last month that “any time the mail is involved, you’re going to have cheating”.
Trump’s attacks are complicating efforts at the Trump campaign to convince Republicans to vote early, which advisers know is crucial to win the election given Democratic voters have no qualms about voting by mail or organizing ballot initiatives and have given their party a major advantage.
Just 28% of Republicans support allowing any voter to cast a ballot by mail, compared with 84% of Democrats, according to a study in February by the Pew Research Center. A large part of that thinking, sources close to Trump concede, has been driven by the former president’s criticism of early voting.
At lest he's not in charge of the US post office this time.
One of the most transparent things he did was appointing a postmaster general just 2 weeks after the Pennsylvania primary demonstrated how much more Democrats were mailing in ballots than Republicans were. Then immediately this guy started dismantling mail sorting machines resulting in post office delays. THEN the Republican Party started suing all the states that tried to allow ballots to be counted that were delayed by the post office.
Can we please not let this guy back into power?
The guy who ordered the dismantling is still in charge of the post office. Louis Dejoy.
Sure, but he’s not taking his orders from Trump (hopefully…)