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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 10:53 AM Aug 2020

GOP officials confront signs of Republican turnout crisis

Washngton Post

President Trump’s unfounded attacks on mail balloting are discouraging his own supporters from embracing the practice, according to polls and Republican leaders across the country, prompting growing alarm that one of the central strategies of his campaign is threatening GOP prospects in November.

Multiple public surveys show a growing divide between Democrats and Republicans about the security of voting by mail, with Republicans saying they are far less likely to trust it in November. In addition, party leaders in several states said they are encountering resistance among GOP voters who are being encouraged to vote absentee while also seeing the president describe mail voting as “rigged” and “fraudulent.”

As a result, state and local Republicans across the country fear they are falling dramatically behind in a practice that is expected to be key to voter turnout this year. Through mailers and Facebook ads, they are racing to promote absentee balloting among their own.

In the process, some Republican officials have tried to draw a distinction between “absentee ballots,” which Trump claims are secure, and “mail ballots,” which he has repeatedly attacked. The terms are typically used interchangeably.


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GOP officials confront signs of Republican turnout crisis (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2020 OP
My brother and I tried to trick our cousin into thinking there was a vampire in the closet underpants Aug 2020 #1
Serves you right! True Blue American Aug 2020 #4
We invent our own reality StClone Aug 2020 #8
Loosing Texas is going to be a real bummer for the GOP! dubyadiprecession Aug 2020 #2
Vote by mail is a key part of GOP GOTV Gothmog Aug 2020 #3
Support Trump - Refuse to Vote bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #5
They'll probably end up mailing THEMSELVES torius Aug 2020 #6
Who knew vote by mail was a big thing for the GOP? Xolodno Aug 2020 #7
karma beachbumbob Aug 2020 #9
Who would've guessed Alger60 Aug 2020 #10
Tots and pears! blaze Aug 2020 #11
It's all about his ego Johnny2X2X Aug 2020 #12

underpants

(182,281 posts)
1. My brother and I tried to trick our cousin into thinking there was a vampire in the closet
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 11:05 AM
Aug 2020

at our grandfather’s house. We did a really good job, my brother and I convinced ourselves and were scared to go upstairs where the closet was.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
3. Vote by mail is a key part of GOP GOTV
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 12:19 PM
Aug 2020

Vote by mail has historically been a major focus of GOP GOTV. The Texas Democrats started to push vote by mail in 2012 in part to fight the GOP voter suppression/voter id law. Even though the GOP voter suppression law has been largely gutted, the Texas party is still pushing vote by mail and in my county we had a couple hundred more vote by mail ballots in 2018. trump is hurting this part of the GOP GOTV effort

Johnny2X2X

(18,745 posts)
12. It's all about his ego
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:35 PM
Aug 2020

Trump is attacking mail in to try to make an excuse for when he loses, but that's not what his campaign needs.

It's one of those times when there is no real strategy to help the GOP, it's just Trump harming the party to sate his massive thirst to protect his fragile ego.

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