Former President Trump urged Republicans to embrace all voting possibilities in advance of the 2024 presidential election — after railing against the practice during the 2020 election.
“ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS. REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE!” the former president declared in an all caps missive from Truth Social, his social media company.
The posting suggests Trump is trying to broaden the horizons of GOP voters — long suspicious of all but in person same-day voting.
While Trump has in the past said he’s OK with absentee ballots — mail-in ballots which require for reason for the request like illness or disability — he has long had issues with widespread use of mail-in ballots for the general population.
The practice became common in many states during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump has spent years insisting that mail-in voting was ripe for abuse and contributed to the voter fraud he claimed delivered the 2020 election to President Biden.
Even before the 2020 election, Trump went out of his way to disparage mail-in voting, accusing Democrats of using them to try and “steal” the election.
Independent observers have long insisted there was not sufficient fraud to swing the election and that Biden’s margin of victory had been legitimate.
