'We Have To Beat The Democrats At Their Own Game': Trump Lays Out Brilliant Plan To Win In 2024

This week, the Trump campaign has announced plans to raise money for a GOP ballot-harvesting operation to counteract Democratic vote-harvesting operations. 

House Republicans have defined the practice the following way: "Ballot harvesting is the practice in which political operatives collect absentee ballots from voters' homes and drop them off at a polling place or election office. It may sound pretty innocuous, but this practice can and has been abused across the country." It has been argued that President Trump's criticisms of mail-in voting, before and since his 2020 loss, helped erode Republican's trust in early voting, and some party strategists argued that it has contributed to election defeats, including in gubernatorial and Senate races in Arizona and Pennsylvania in the last midterm elections.

According to The Washington Times, the Trump campaign's email declared, "We recently alerted you that a Soros-linked Super PAC has begun targeting 6 battleground states with a $75 MILLION spending blitz to buy Crooked Joe the White House."

The efforts for Republicans to counteract Democrats' schemes will be centered in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As part of Trump's initiative, the campaign has been asking for financial contributions to the Trump campaign’s Ballot Harvesting Fund. As President Trump explained during this year's CPAC, "We will become masters at ballot harvesting [...] We have to beat the Democrats at their own game, and we'll do it legally. The agenda I've laid out today will end America's destruction."

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the change comes as Trump's GOP rivals, including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), have criticized that Republicans have squandered chances in recent elections by focusing too much on Election Day turnout. 

Recently, in an interview with Ben Shapiro, Gov. DeSantis contrasted his approach to early voting with Trump's past performance. As such, it might be that the Trump campaign is responding preemptively to a critique on the part of his rivals that he doesn't have a plan to prevent Democrats from outmaneuvering Republicans in early voting. Of course, President Trump's flip-flops on early voting do show an electoral vulnerability, and it is natural that Gov. DeSantis and other rivals will seek to hurt him with the issue. Will it be effective to deprive President Trump of the Republican nomination? Only time will tell. 

Nevertheless, the Trump campaign's move to invest into ballot harvesting operations in battleground states may prove instrumental in flipping these states back into the GOP column in 2024.