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RandySF

(66,225 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 06:56 PM Sep 7

Team Trump says early voting helps 'fake news media' drive 'voter suppression'

While a “Blue Mirage” may sound like a cocktail one might have by the pool, the Donald Trump campaign warns that it’s actually driving “voter suppression.”

“To be clear: Kamala Harris’s campaign and their allies in the fake news media are already spreading misinformation about the state of play as part of a coordinated and intentional voter suppression effort against President Trump’s supporters,” says data consultant Tim Saler.

He adds that “early Democrat leads in absentee and vote by mail are not at all predictive of victory on November 5th and may, in fact, be indicating a major failure to meet the enormous margins that they delivered in the 2020 election.”

The argument here is that Democrats are simply delivering guaranteed votes early, in other words, with an operation Republicans historically haven’t matched, but that is all for nothing anyway.

“Ballots will go out imminently in North Carolina, marking the start of pre-Election Day voting in the battleground states. Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 2:1 in requested absentee ballots in 2020. In 2020, President Trump carried North Carolina despite a 421,912 ballot deficit in absentee by-mail votes,” Saler claims.



https://floridapolitics.com/archives/694699-team-trump-says-early-voting-helps-fake-news-media-drive-voter-suppression/

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Team Trump says early voting helps 'fake news media' drive 'voter suppression' (Original Post) RandySF Sep 7 OP
Oh, just fuck him... Dennis Donovan Sep 7 #1
WTF is he talking about?? pat_k Sep 7 #2
Something about him not wanting to go to jail BOSSHOG Sep 7 #3

Dennis Donovan

(22,005 posts)
1. Oh, just fuck him...
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:06 PM
Sep 7

I'm (and I'm sure MANY) are sick to death of his fake boogeymen and constant victimhood.

Grow a pair, you cockwobble!

pat_k

(10,253 posts)
2. WTF is he talking about??
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:11 PM
Sep 7

Counts aren't released until after election day. What is he worried about?

IMO, states should withhold numbers until the initial canvas is complete, but of course, the public and news media wouldn't stand for that. As it is, differences in demographics voting early and late -- and being counted early and late -- always result is shifts that deniers can point to as "something wrong."

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