'The narrative that he’s created has backfired,' asserted Michael Steele, a former Republican National Committee chairman. 'Any Republican who's running a campaign knows how much we rely on absentee ballots – vote by mail – for turnout.'
Critics counter that Trump is less worried about fraud than he is about setting the stage to challenge the election if the result is extremely close or if early returns appear to favor Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Election experts say that Trump is correct that the expected huge increase in mail ballots could significantly delay results, but they say such a delay would be an indication of the system working, meticulously, through vote counting.
"If I were a Republican strategist, I would be pretty concerned...about a disproportionate decline in Republican turnout because Republicans are convinced that mail-in votes are so rife with fraud that there is no point in doing it,” said Ramesh Ponnuru with the right-leaning think-tank American Enterprise Institute.
"We know there are issues, the president knows there are issues, and the Democrats, if they are willing to admit it, know there are issues," Tabas said in a statement."The concerns we have as a party, related to the mail-in ballots, won’t change the fact President Trump is going to win Pennsylvania."
"We're going to have sheriffs and we're going to have law enforcement and we're going to have hopefully, U.S. attorneys, and we're going to have everybody, and attorney generals," Trump said."But it's very hard."
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