GOP fears Trump attacks on mail-in vote will sabotage turnout

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Conservatives are growing worried that President Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting could suppress the GOP vote as Democrats mobilize to take advantage of expanded voting opportunities while suspicious Republicans gamble on in-person turnout during a pandemic.

Scores of states have moved to expand absentee balloting amid the coronavirus outbreak to cut down on crowds and lines, hastening a recent trend toward mail-in voting, which has grown more common and more popular in recent years.

Trump has resisted the move, saying Democrats have an advantage in high-turnout elections and making unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud in mail-in voting, including on Thursday when he raised the idea of delaying the election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote.”

Polls show that Trump’s attacks have undermined GOP confidence in mail-in voting, which otherwise has overwhelming support among Democrats and independents.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510040-gop-fears-trump-attacks-on-mail-in-vote-will-sabotage-turnout

Brilliant!!!

[gulliver]

1. It's hard not to suspect that Trump is trying to intimidate voters by letting covid run amok.

Then he takes away their safe recourse (mail-in voting). If something's good for Trump, he does it. We've seen that. The fact that he's expressed no empathy for the tens of thousands who have died kind of shows he would let people die (and be threatened by the fear of death) from a disease to benefit himself. There's no evidence to the contrary.

Yes, he'll intimidate some Republicans too. But he's after low turnout from Dems. The Republicans are just side casualties in a numbers game.

[Baked Potato]

2. If people still paid bills through the mail,

the PO would run like clockwork.

[lindysalsagal]

3. He's starting to cost them their own jobs. It's high time.

Some Republicans are urging GOP leaders to abandon the attacks on mail-in voting and to instead embrace it, saying that greater access to absentee ballots is a foregone conclusion this year and warning that the president is effectively sabotaging his own party by refusing to buy into that new reality.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Gosh, Republicans would NEVER shoot themselves in the own feet.

[yellowcanine]

5. With a little planning the Postal Service could make mail in

voting work. Place drop boxes at strategic locations, including polling sites. Transport the ballots directly to a central polling location to be counted. No need for the ballots to go to a post office except when the ballots need to be sent to a different jurisdiction.
Oh, and have "all hands and trucks on deck" to handle the ballots. Pay the overtime to make it work.

[Gothmog]

6. Trump is an idiot

Vote by mail is a key part of GOP GOTV. trump will hurt GOP GOTV