Republican officials throughout the United States are reaching out to Donald Trump citing a growing alarm over his attacks on mail-in ballots. The officials suggest his unsupported claims about mass voting frauds as they continue to deteriorate the opinion of GOP voters, who may opt not to vote at all if they can't make it to the polls during the upcoming election.
Top Republicans are telling senior campaign officials of Trump to urge the president to modify his comments and embrace mail-in-voting because they believe the party could risk losing the battle for control o the White House and Congress if he continues to use an attacking tune, multiple GOP sources have confirmed. According to sources, Trump officials are fully aware of the concerns.
This could negatively impact the GOP up and down the ticket, according to a slew of lawmakers, pollsters, field operatives, and Republican election officials who are closely monitoring the matter. Each vote in the key battleground states will matter, they claim, concerned that discouraging GOP voters from choosing a convenient way to cast their ballots could lead to an outcome of races that are determined by a few percentage points, CNN reported.
With coronavirus cases likely to increase in the fall, several voters may understandably prefer not to wait in long lines at polling stations. As a result, voting by mail will garner more popularity among voters. This will also give Democrats a significant advantage as their voters will opt to send their ballots by mail, while Republican voters will not choose that option simply because the president continues to blast mail-in ballots.
Wisconsin played a vital role in Trump's narrow victory in 2016. Republican Party chairman in Fond du Lac County Rohn Bishop recalls Republicans had to beg their voters to vote absentee during the initial stage of the pandemic. Trump will need to create a GOP turnout in the Fond du Lac County in Nov.
Bishop pointed out that they had to drop the issue like a hot potato after Trump expressed his frustration over mail-in balloting in a series of tweets. Noting that their voters are now running away from it, Bishop said that's where the Republicans are making a mistake.
Bishop bluntly admitted that he feels they are hurting themselves, comparing the situation with tieing his arm behind his back. Republicans at the state, as well as county-level, are also concerned along with those who are associated with the national party.