“They’re hypocrites”: Republicans now funding the same voting methods they demonized under Trump – By Areeba Shah (Salon) / July 22, 2023
“What they do is lie to try to steal elections, that has not stopped,” says Colorado Sec. of State Jena Griswold
Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who have long baselessly linked mail-in voting and so-called ballot harvesting to voter fraud, are now building programs that encourage these same practices.
Republicans with close ties to Trump are now attempting to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to develop robust initiatives that promote voting practices, similar to the ones employed by Democrats, that they once vilified after experiencing poor election outcomes in 2020 and 2022, according to The Washington Post.
“The big takeaway is that they’re hypocrites who will do anything to try to hold on to power,” Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold told Salon. “At this point, for years, the extreme right has launched a coordinated assault on democracy, on voting rights – all to create doubt in voters’ minds so that they can tilt elections in their favor, to set up the atmosphere to try to steal elections, and that has been their playbook.”
Now, the same Republicans are trying to undo the damage they have done by promoting falsehoods about early voting methods. Instead, they are trying convince GOP supporters that such efforts are reliable to increase voter turnout.
