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2024 Election


TRUMP SAYS HE’S CHANGING HIS TUNE ON MAIL-IN BALLOTING

Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower the day after FBI agents
raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York on Aug. 9, 2022. (David 'Dee'
Delgado/Reuters)
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday said he is warming to the idea of his
campaign pushing for mail-in balloting and early voting because Republicans
“have to play the game.”

During an interview with Just the News’ John Solomon that was published this
week, Trump said that he is now embracing vote-by-mail and more early voting
campaigns ahead of the 2024 contest.

The reason why his position has shifted, he said, is “because it’s so unfair,
the whole process is,” referring to previous claims that vote-by-mail laws in
some states have been exploited, namely during the 2020 contest.



“It’s a disgusting process. And what was happening is they’d go in there with an
accumulation of votes, which in many places isn’t even legal, and they would
accumulate votes at a level like nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump remarked.

The former president said that his team and Republicans “[are] going to have to
play the game a little bit differently, because we’re starting off with a
deficit, and tremendous bad things are happening.” If Republicans can nab
victories in some battleground states by using early voting and vote-by-mail,
they can change those laws, he argued.

“I know that your next question will probably be like, ‘What do you recommend?'”
Trump stated. “And what I recommend is all paper ballots, one-day voting, voter
ID, and no mail-in except for far away military and people that are really
seriously ill. And we’ll have an honest system again.”

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Earlier this month, screenshots of fundraising emails sent out by Trump’s
campaign appeared to confirm that he is now embracing vote-by-mail.

“The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and
walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing
something HUGE to fight back,” one of the emails read, according to a
screenshot. It added that their “path forward” will be to “MASTER the
Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also
means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”



Weeks before that, in December, Trump suggested to Breitbart that he and the GOP
will likely have to embrace early voting.

An election worker gathers tabulated ballots to be boxed in a file photo. (Matt
York/AP Photo)

“You’re right,” Trump said in response when asked about Republicans not changing
laws if they aren’t in power. “But you can shame the hell out of people and you
can shame the Democrats. The Democrats know it’s corrupt and the Democrats
should want to fix it but they don’t because they do have an advantage under
that system. For the time, though, we have to live with the system that stinks
so we have to fight it like they do, which is your question.”

Ahead and after the 2020 election, the former president repeatedly pilloried
mail-in voting and ballot-collection operations, saying they’re fraught with
voter fraud.




WHAT COMES NEXT

Other Republicans have similarly signaled they, too, want to pursue early voting
and absentee balloting strategies. Republican voters have long favored casting
ballots during Election Day, according to a number of different pollsters, while
Democrats were more likely to favor early voting regimes.

A survey released by Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll late last year showed that 52
percent of Democrat voters said they voted before Election Day. That’s compared
with 45 percent of Republicans who did the same, according to The Hill.

“We have to reevaluate both the strategy and the tactics. We had so many close
races, but we didn’t do a good job at early voting, we didn’t do a lot of
mail-in voting,” said Saul Anuzis, a Republican strategist, told The Hill last
December. “We don’t like that stuff so we don’t really participate in it.”

Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist and former congressional candidate,
noted to the website that Republicans can complain “as much as you want, but you
gotta find a way to play the game, because the game’s not going to change right
now.”

Also during Monday’s interview, Trump said he would push for a federal law on
voter identification. Democrat lawmakers have signaled opposition to such
measures, claiming that such rules are attempts to suppress voter turnout.

“We would have voter ID. How about even 88 percent of Democrats favor voter ID,
but Democrat leadership doesn’t want to do it. There’s only one reason they
don’t want to do voter ID: because they cheat,” he said.



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