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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's attacks on mail voting are turning Republicans off absentee ballots
President Trumps relentless attacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots a dynamic alarming Republican strategists, who say it could undercut their own candidates, including Trump himself.
In several primaries this spring, Democratic voters have embraced mail ballots in far larger numbers than Republicans during a campaign season defined by the coronavirus pandemic. And when they urge their supporters to vote by mail, GOP campaigns around the country are hearing from more and more Republican voters who say they do not trust absentee ballots, according to multiple strategists. In one particularly vivid example, a group of Michigan voters held a public burning of their absentee ballot applications last month.
The growing Republican antagonism toward voting by mail comes even as the Trump campaign is launching a major absentee-ballot program in every competitive state, according to multiple campaign advisers a delicate balancing act, considering what one strategist described as the presidents imprecision on the subject.
Its very concerning for Republicans, said a top party operative, who like several others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid drawing Trumps ire. I guarantee our Republican Senate candidates are having it drilled into them that they cannot accept this. They have to have sophisticated mail programs. If we dont adapt, we wont win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-attacks-on-mail-voting-are-turning-republicans-off-absentee-ballots/2020/07/07/640b6126-bbd4-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
jorgevlorgan
(8,325 posts)Donald Trump: Republicans shooting themselves in the foot since 2016.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,828 posts)fierywoman
(7,689 posts)better for us. But weird as shit.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I'm thinking we will find problems with them in this election too. They got away with it in NC, other than having to acknowledge they did it. There was no other punishment for them for doing that. They even got to pick a new list of candidates to run in a new election because of it.
Trump is clearly projecting. If Republicans would quit cheating in elections, we wouldn't have any cheating. Simple as that.
Cha
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Dorian Gray
(13,498 posts)keep coming at us fast and hard.