After years of opposing early voting, former President Trump is taking a softer stance on the issue.
In more recent comments on the matter, Trump is changing what he says about what the country should do about early voting.
The Wall Street Journal says that the Trump 2024 team is currently poring over state laws throughout the many states where it will matter in the 2024 election. Supposedly, he and his team are looking for ways to give up the support they need for this run.
The Washington Examiner reports that Trump still believes that the 2020 election was rigged and that things were set up against him in that contest. Despite this, many people on the Trump team are looking at how they can use election laws in their favor now. These two messages conflict with one another. On the one hand, Trump says that the 2020 election was rigged against him. On the other hand, he wants to allow some of the same things that occurred against him should be permitted to move forward.
A recent fundraising e-mail from the Trump Team read in part: The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But Im doing something HUGE to fight back.
The e-mail said: Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats own game of harvesting ballots.
There are many critics of the tactics that Democrats have used in past elections, such as the much-disputed method of ballot harvesting that they are known to use to collect as many votes as possible. Some say that this opens the door to election fraud and other issues related to voting.
The Washington Examiner reports a significant gulf between Democrats and Republicans regarding mail-in voting. The difference between the two is that 60% of Democrats decided to vote via mail-in ballots. Meanwhile, this was the preferred method of just 30% of Republicans in the 2020 election. This was only sometimes the case in previous elections. Still, Republican skepticism about mail-in voting appears to have driven down the number of Republicans that agreed to vote in this manner.
Trump has now been officially joined in the campaign for President by former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, and she has already been encouraging voters to cast their votes early.
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