Republicans Have a Mail-in Voting Problem
As Ronna McDaniel prepares to leave her post as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) next week, Republicans are left with a big problem that may end up costing them the 2024 election. Even if the GOP wanted to fix it, it may be too late. The best part: they have only Donald Trump to blame.
Even as voting by mail has become increasingly important to winning elections, it remains a target of Republican derision. Now, the Republican establishment claims to want to reverse this, but former President Donald Trump continues sabotaging them at every turn.
Historically, mail-in voting was seen as an election modernization without a partisan benefit. Its most loyal users were older voters and those in the military or living abroad. White voters preferred it more than Black voters.
In 2016, only 21% of voters cast their ballot by mail. But, with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, more voters than ever took advantage of the safety and convenience of voting from home.
Republican operatives, who had mastered large scale mail-in voter drives initially saw an opportunity. That is, until Trump — seemingly out of nowhere — started attacking mail-in voting at every turn in the lead up to the 2020 election.
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