Apparently Trump likes mail-in voting now — at least when he's trying to convince donors to give him money.
. His obsession with crowd sizes is the most laughable version of this habit, but it’s been a clear throughline for his entire time in politics. His refusal to let go of the Russia probe led to his first impeachment; his steadfast conviction that he should be able to keep government documents might lead to another criminal indictment. And, of course, his inability to admit his loss in 2020 helped spark the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
With that track record, it’s doubtful that he’ll be able to stick to the script on mail-in voting, no matter how much his campaign wants him to do so.in February that his team is “studying state laws governing absentee and mail-in voting as well as ballot collection.” That new strategy was reflected in a fundraising email, sent out under Trump’s name declaring that the “path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can,” the WSJ reported.
Telling folks what they want to hear so they’ll open up their wallets is exactly what Trump was doing in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Before Trump launched his assault on mail-in voting, it was correctly seen as a tactic where neither party held any kind of huge advantage. That changed when
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