Trump’s Big Lie Only Hurt Him. There’s Data to Prove It.
Republicans perfected the mail-in ballot system and benefitted from it. A study of primary results shows the damage the former president has done.
Is this all part of Trump’s endgame?
Mary Altaffer/AP/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party has eviscerated the mail-in voting advantage party leaders spent two decades developing. Now, with the presidential primary season nearing its end, we have evidence that GOP legislators’ efforts to appease their king by making it more difficult to vote by mail aren’t helping their party and are hurting him.
So, I wonder: Is this all part of Trump’s endgame?
Before we get there, remember the 2022 Georgia Senate run-off, when Trump kept arguing that the election was rigged? Republican turnout dropped, and early and absentee ballots helped Democrats flip the seat with Raphael Warnock's election.