Posted on 02/20/2023 8:35:50 AM PST by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump is fighting fire with fire in a new campaign fundraiser email, announcing a ballot harvesting fund that will take aim at how Democrats wield the election system to their advantage.
“The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won,” the email stated. “But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back. Our presidential campaign will launch our own BALLOT HARVESTING FUND in the states where the Left has been cheating the system.”
Ballot harvesting is the practice of third parties collecting ballots from registered voters, and it is perfectly legal in some states. For example, ballot harvesting is legal in Nevada and California, but it is illegal in Pennsylvania, reported CBS.
According to the Wall Street Journal, around 60 percent of Democrats nationwide voted by mail in the 2020 presidential elections, while only 30 percent of Republicans voted by mail.
In November 2022, Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel Church in Thousand Oaks, California, told Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk that his church had chosen to ballot harvest during the midterm elections.
“I was skeptical when Rob told me he was gonna do it,” Kirk said, per Human Events. “Honestly I was wrong. It’s illuminating and eye-opening. It’s how you could flip a county, flip a district, flip the state. If they’re going to do it, it’s time for us to do it.”
Per Human Events, McCoy said they harvested just under 1,000 ballots from his church.
“The radical Left knows they could never win a FAIR election on the issues,” Trump’s email continued “…So, instead of running on the issues, Democrats try to BUY, RIG, and LIE their way into power.”
The statement concluded, “Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”
After the 2022 midterms where Trump raised over $100 million to create a red tsunami, but spent only around $20 million, I am not sure I can trust him again.
McConnell spent more on Trump senatorial candidates than Trump spent on ALL candidates combined.
Facts are stubborn things.
This is a losing issue if handled like this.
The Left engages in ILLEGAL ballot harvesting to commit fraud.
LEGAL ballot harvesting will NEVER be a counterpoint.
The ENTIRE focus should be on outlawing Ballot Harvesting.
Yes I would like at least most of the red tsunami funds utilized.
i don’t think it is trump’s job to raise money for all republican candidates, especially those who are soft on support for him.
you will see the spending in 2024
“I am not sure I can trust him again.”
You can.
Harken waaaaay back, oh gosh, what was it... three days ago when the Biden admin said they wouldn’t help out Palestine Ohio.
Trump announced he was going to go there and have a look-see.
Biden admin did a 180 in what, half an hour?
Our enemy is scared shirtless of this dude.
That’s who you want to go to war with. If you are serious about winning, that is.
That's exactly what this is about. The best way to get the Dims against something is for Trump to be for it.
The Rats will have the FBI check into this.
Being scared of one man is ok but this time around Trump should be gathering a coalition of replacements needed on day one for each agency to purge the system
🙄🤣
I am afraid this will lead to a different kind of scandal in the Republican party and give ammo to the democrats. First it is the democrats that actually count the votes in those dark back rooms. And the will look for and expose any activity by republicans that has even the smell of corruption. All the while covering up their own cheating. I do not believe that this leads to a good place.
It would be grand if it were the case, a kind of 4-D chess, but I don’t think it is...
Since you are uneducated, Trump created a PAC called Save America PAC raised over $100 million for the 2022 midterms for Trump endorsed candidates. Trump is leader of the party and is responsible for fundraising if he wants to remain leader of the party.
Trump-endorsed Senate candidates got more from Mitch McConnell's Senate PAC than from Trump's PAC.
Save America PAC gave $760,000 directly to federal candidates while giving $60 million to Make America Great Again PAC, $3 million to Trumps defense attorneys and $1.5 million to META.
Maybe you should educate yourself before posting.
If Trump launches a serious and effective ballot-harvesting effort, he has a good chance to win re-election in 2024. Any Republican who doesn’t do this on their own (the Ronna McDaniel RNC is absolutely useless) has no chance of winning.
I agree, but what if there are none!
He might be better off just bringing in his company executives. Boy would all of DC howl about that!
It cannot work that way.
If Trump forwarded a lawyer to be Attorney General, and that lawyer said it would be his great pleasure to fire all of the FBI, then that lawyer has zero chance of Senate confirmation.
The same for all others of your coalition of replacements. They could not get Senate approval and thus could not get the job.
It’s a very delicate thing. Trump will have to find people who are 1) Not in any way connected with the GOPe, which largely means not a resident of the Washington DC area 2) have no firebrand history to be data mined and 3) Willing to tell the Senate confirmation process anything they want to hear in order to get the job, and then start firing people.
Even then, the risk of that particular person being impeached would be high.
Draining the Swamp MUST BE the very top priority of everything, but have no delusions that it will be quick or easy.
All those “mail in ballots” were originally nothing but junk mail that the (D)ung beetles flooded the postal system with.
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