Battle for Virginia state senate will stay interesting … Youngkin’s poll numbers are great, but the “vote Dem or we’ll turn into Gilead” strategy that worked for Dems in Wisconsin already worked in VA this year. https://semafor.com/article/01/10/2023/virginia-special-election-youngkin-abortion

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Trump coup attorney Cleta Mitchell wants to "combat" voting on college campuses, citing North Carolina and Wisconsin, and says that when Republicans win the state Senate in Virginia, they can eliminate 45 days of early voting and same day voter registration.

Cultist Lawyer Urges Republicans To End Campus Voting
April 20, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her presentation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Cleta Mitchell, a longtime GOP lawyer and fundraiser who worked closely with former president Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, gave the presentation at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville on Saturday.

The presentation — which had more than 50 slides and was labeled “A Level Playing Field for 2024” — offered a window into a strategy that seems designed to reduce voter access and turnout among certain groups, including students and those who vote by mail, both of which tend to skew Democratic.

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