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RNC chair defends mail-in voting, even as Trump trashes the practice
NBC News ^ | 12/7/2022 | Henry Gomez

Posted on 12/07/2022 2:05:32 PM PST by semimojo

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel unequivocally endorsed mail-in balloting Tuesday, distancing herself from former President Donald Trump on an issue that is fracturing the GOP in the wake of disappointing election results this fall.

“What we do need is our voters need to vote early,” McDaniel, a longtime Trump ally, said during a televised interview on Fox News. “I have said this over and over again. There were many in 2020 saying, ‘Don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early.’ And we have to stop that.”...

"The discussion was about Democrats having a month to bank votes while Republicans expect to get it done in one day," RNC spokesperson Nathan Brand said in a statement to NBC News. "We were not talking about the former president, who has encouraged his base to vote early and has himself voted by mail."

But Trump, who already has launched a 2024 presidential campaign, also is the most prominent skeptic of voting by mail. He continues to raise false and unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part through vote-by-mail programs in battleground states. As recently as last week on his Truth Social website, he wrote, in all capital letters for emphasis: “YOU CAN NEVER HAVE FAIR & FREE ELECTIONS WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS — NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frnevertrump; theusualsuspect; theusualsuspects
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To: pgyanke
Everywhere there is universal mail-in balloting is either trending toward one-party rule or already there.

AZ has had no-excuse VBM since 1991 and the trend is just the opposite.

81 posted on 12/07/2022 5:18:52 PM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo

Rona The Traitor.
What more is there to say?


82 posted on 12/07/2022 5:20:19 PM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: semimojo

McDumba$$, one of the 3 McLosers of the RNC. Of course they like mail in voting. They get to play the fraud game too.


83 posted on 12/07/2022 5:20:32 PM PST by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: JonPreston

“If I were you I wouldn’t vote for Trump.”

God willing, he will be long gone by the primary season.


84 posted on 12/07/2022 5:25:41 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Wayne07

There you go. Simple stuff.


85 posted on 12/07/2022 5:28:32 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: semimojo

“You can bribe people to vote in person too.”

Sure, but how can you be sure they vote ‘correctly’?


86 posted on 12/07/2022 5:33:07 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 24 degrees)
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To: JonPreston

If you want to vote for him, it’s cool Just don’t mail it in or vote early, ok?


87 posted on 12/07/2022 5:34:27 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Wayne07

Trying to “beat them at their own game” will not work.
They control the mailing of the ballots. If more Repubs request a mail in ballot, they will just put some small mark on the return envelope or some barcode on it to identify it as a Repub vote.

Two wrongs don’t make a right ... remember that old saying? It is true today as much as it was true in the past.

That being said, there will NEVER be another fair election in this country ever.

The Red states need to begin the process of seceding from the union. They need to begin to work together economically and plan for how to make the new country work by reestablishing the founding documents, the Bill of Rights, and scrap all the garbage that has been added to the law books over the past 100 years. Additionally the red states need to begin doing for themselves what the Federal govt is suppose to do (eg. enforce immigration laws and ignore the Feds).

Anything short of that is a waste of time


88 posted on 12/07/2022 5:34:41 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: semimojo

There is zero benefit to early voting, especially when the dems are counting the votes. It just gives them better numbers to work with. It’s embarrassing for both rinos and democrats when they have to stop the counting in the middle of the night and flip the votes by huge numbers in order to win. If we would just fall in line, they could cheat so much more believably. There is no reason for voting by mail except to promote fraud. She needs to go away


89 posted on 12/07/2022 5:48:45 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: semimojo

Of course Romney loves fraud by mail.


90 posted on 12/07/2022 6:07:49 PM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble and Audible)
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To: semimojo

“McDaniel, a longtime Trump ally.”. Lmao!

Remember when Trump endorsed Ronna AFTER the debacle that was the 2020 election?

Yeah, that was cool.


91 posted on 12/07/2022 6:21:07 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: semimojo

Mail in voting is an invitation to fraud. It was supposed to be a measure to deal with COVID. It is no longer needed.


92 posted on 12/07/2022 6:22:32 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: ScottinVA

Agree. I voted early this year. My ballot arrived promptly after about 4 days in a certified letter format and I mailed it back within 48 hours. I understand why some are nervous about it, though. It is somewhat comforting to vote in person and watch it go into the machine and register, which is absent with mail-in systems. It is all by faith whether we believe either is counted or not.

The red wave swept my county here in NC. We even voted out the D Sheriff.


93 posted on 12/07/2022 7:03:17 PM PST by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: semimojo

This doesn’t mean that the head of the RNC is deep state
swamp bound does it? Oh me oh my... LOL

Who knew, for the last three decades...


94 posted on 12/07/2022 7:06:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: semimojo

Ballot harvesting should be illegal. That is the big problem.


95 posted on 12/07/2022 7:46:06 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: srmanuel

Yup with Covid the horse has left the barn. Its time to play the same dirty game. Whining about it is just going to handicap the Republicans to only stick with one limited day of voting.


96 posted on 12/07/2022 9:06:18 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: dforest

I would be in favor on going back to a voting day or at most a voting weekend but you can’t change voting laws without being in power and you don’t gain power without winning elections, either you play the game with the rules as they exist or you continue to lose, complaining is just sour grapes


97 posted on 12/07/2022 10:15:26 PM PST by srmanuel (I)
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To: All

but they keep doing the same things, which is the clinical definition of insanity.


To appreciate what insanity actually is, it’s important to grasp what it isn’t. Contrary to popular belief, insanity isn’t defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And, while it is often used to describe certain states of mind, insanity is also not a medical condition. You won’t find a diagnosis for insanity in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association. Instead, insanity is a legal term that refers to a criminal defendant’s ability to distinguish right from wrong during the specific instance in which he allegedly committed a crime.
(From howthingswork article by Mr. Opfer)


98 posted on 12/08/2022 1:26:24 AM PST by pluvmantelo ( I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. )
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To: isthisnickcool

“Ballot harvesting should be illegal.”

It should be, but in some states, it’s not… so if the GOP wants to be competitive going forward, it’d better learn how to harvest ballots as aggressively as the dems.


99 posted on 12/08/2022 1:40:57 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: pluvmantelo
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.

100 posted on 12/08/2022 1:44:13 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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