Republicans are trying to up their early voting game -- but Trump keeps getting in the way

Republicans are pouring tens of millions of dollars into getting GOP voters to cast ballots before Election Day.

They’re frustrated because Donald Trump keeps getting in the way.

In just the last few weeks, the former president has dismissed early voting as “stupid,” falsely claimed that 20 percent of mail ballots in Pennsylvania are “fraudulent,” suggested mail carriers could “lose hundreds of thousands of ballots, maybe purposefully,” and baselessly accused Democrats of exploiting a program that sends ballots to overseas and military voters to evade citizenship checks.

Trump’s vilification of mail and early voting methods, a key component of his web of stolen-election conspiracy theories, stoked a deep partisan divide that Republicans have spent the better part of the last four years trying to undo. They have also tried on and off since 2020 to persuade Trump himself to embrace early voting.



https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/06/trumps-early-voting-00182611