{"id":583859,"date":"2023-07-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trumps-mixed-message-on-early-voting-muddles-republican-2024-strategy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:00:00","slug":"trumps-mixed-message-on-early-voting-muddles-republican-2024-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trumps-mixed-message-on-early-voting-muddles-republican-2024-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump\u2019s mixed message on early voting muddles Republican 2024 strategy \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/trumpdonald_071823ap_muddled.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Trump\u2019s muddled messages on early voting risk hurting Republicans as they look to revamp their strategy heading into 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During a town hall interview with Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> host Sean Hannity this week, Trump said he would encourage Republicans to do early voting. At the same time, he also sowed doubt over the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach\u00a0\u2014 baselessly alleging people make \u201cphony ballots\u201d and claiming \u201ca lot of bad things happen to those ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those comments are a stark contrast to recent initiatives launched by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to encourage GOP voters to cast their ballots early as they look to make up ground against Democrats in early voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not helpful. I think [Trump] raising questions about mail-in votes is a big part of why we don\u2019t control the Senate and why we have such a slim majority in the House. It\u2019s just ludicrous that the party wouldn\u2019t be united in encouraging voters to vote early,\u201d said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are increasingly embracing early voting as a way to juice up GOP voter turnout as the party looks to change Republicans\u2019 mindset over a strategy the former president has demonized.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the RNC launched a \u201cBank Your Vote\u201d campaign that aims to encourage voters to vote early. A press release stated the initiative would \u201cencourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Youngkin and several Republican groups teamed up to launch the Secure Your Vote Virginia initiative aimed at encouraging Republicans and swing voters in the state to cast ballots early in person or vote by mail. The initiative comes ahead of Virginia\u2019s state Legislature elections this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Virginia GOP strategist confirmed the Secure Your Vote Virginia initiative is a seven-figure effort and said they\u2019ve been \u201cvery pleased with how the response has been\u201d so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat Sean Hannity and [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis and Glenn Younkin and [Georgia Gov.] Brian Kemp are saying is the rules are the rules,\u201d the strategist said, adding later, \u201cGet off the sideline, don\u2019t fight with one hand behind your back and follow the rules that are allowed and make sure you\u2019re getting as many votes as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican secretaries of state \u2014 the top elections officials in their states \u2014 have also encouraged early voting, including in their campaigns. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger\u2019s (R) office\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ga.gov\/news\/record-breaking-turnout-georgias-runoff-election\">noted last December<\/a>\u00a0that the state broke records for midterm early voting turnout and midterm absentee mail ballots cast during the November election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia voters have been utilizing early voting for several election cycles now, and successful campaigns like mine and Gov. Brian Kemp have always incorporated early voting into our campaign strategies\u2014 as would any candidate who actually wants to win,\u201d Raffensperger said in a statement to The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In Kentucky, Secretary of State Michael Adams (R) has encouraged early voting, and his office told The Hill that Republicans are having an edge over Democrats in using it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2020 through the May primary of this year, we\u2019ve seen slightly more Republicans than Democrats take advantage of early voting \u2014 proportionate to our voter registration breakdown,\u201d Michon Lindstrom, a spokesperson for Adams, told The Hill in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Adams <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KYSecState\/status\/1658142413930504193\">in May released<\/a> unofficial early voting turnout numbers ahead of the gubernatorial primary, showing almost 42,000 Republicans and around 30,700 Democrats used no-excuse early voting. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Even Trump more recently this year was encouraging the use of early voting methods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in March, he said, \u201cRepublicans must compete using every lawful means to win. That means swamping the left with mail-in votes, early votes and Election Day votes. Have to do it. We have to change our thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while Trump suggested to Hannity this week he would encourage early voting heading into 2024, he also suggested Republicans couldn\u2019t entirely trust the process.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI will, but those ballots get lost also, Sean,\u201d Trump said when asked if he\u2019d encourage his supporters to vote early. \u201cYou know, they send them in, and all of a sudden, they\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s campaign for its part has said the former president has been straightforward on his view of early voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been very consistent in his messaging all campaign long. Even though it\u2019s an imperfect system, we need to do whatever is allowed legally to ensure every vote is counted,\u201d Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in an email to The Hill, pointing to his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>There, Trump said Republicans must be \u201cswamping the left with mail-in votes, early votes and Election Day votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans have brushed off the muddled messaging, saying Trump\u2019s comments to Hannity were one isolated interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be \u2014 that one interview and those comments \u2014 are going to be impactful,\u201d said Republican strategist David Carney.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>For candidates, \u201cIf that\u2019s one of their major talking points, it could,\u201d Carney said. \u201cBut we can\u2019t win on one-day voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But other members of the party see it differently, and they\u2019ll need to fine-tune their strategy on voting to win competitive elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have somebody like former President Trump talking about something in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ities, it can certainly serve to muddle the message,\u201d said Allegheny County GOP chairman Sam DeMarco.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco, who\u2019s part of the Pennsylvania GOP\u2019s task force on mail-in voting, said Republicans in the state are getting involved in their own early voting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He said they \u201cspoke to a number of different states who use mail-in ballots in early voting to try to glean and learn best practices from them. And we\u2019re working to put a number of those in place here in Pennsylvania, and in particularly in Allegheny County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Political experts say Trump should have an incentive for changing his tune on early voting \u2014 especially if he wants to win the Republican presidential nomination again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it underscores what we\u2019ve known all along, which is that, you know, Donald Trump \u2026 is not very disciplined\u201d as a campaigner, explained Charles Stewart III, a political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> professor at Massachusetts Institute of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> (MIT) and director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he wants to win and if he\u2019s convinced that they\u2019re going \u2014 that Republicans are going to do better if they can \u2026 bank these votes, I think his messaging will come around, and it will be more focused,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brett Samuels contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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