The Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primaries, South Carolina primaries and Super Tuesday have come and gone with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump racking up enough delegates to become the 2024 nominees of their respective political parties. Now, the real race for the White House starts.
As result of Trump’s dominance in the Republican primary, the general election against incumbent President Joe Biden is set to be the longest in history. Both sides will burn through significant amounts of cash in an effort to break through in swing states to win the White House.
If the election were held today, polling shows President Trump would win. He’s beating Biden, albeit within the margin of error, in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia. The number of independents dissatisfied with Biden’s first term is astounding, dropping into the low 40s while Trump ascends into the high 50s with the group, according to recent Harris/Forbes polling.
But the polling won’t matter if Republican voters don’t get to work on understanding their state’s election systems and working within them to get Trump over the finish line.
Democrats are the Olympians of voting. In 2020, they changed swing state election rules in favor of Democrats under the guise of a pandemic emergency. As a result, by the time Election Day rolls around, Democrats have already banked millions of votes through legal community organizing, ballot harvesting, early voting and by casting ballots through the mail. Republicans show up on Election Day very far behind, hoping to make up the gap. In most instances, that's an impossible task.
Being traditionalists and understanding the fact that mail-in voting does in fact lead to fraud, as the Carter-Baker Commission proved long before the topic became radioactive in today’s political discourse, Republicans are understandably skeptical of using the same systems Democrats do to win.
The Republican National Committee recognizes these facts and launched a “Bank Your Vote” effort to try and keep up with the left’s early voting efforts. That project will now shift to “Grow Your Vote” with a new RNC in town.
“The much heralded ‘Bank Your Vote’ program, aimed at getting Republicans to vote early, will shift to a ‘Grow The Vote’ program focused more on expanding the party’s outreach to less likely Trump voters,” the Washington Post reports. “Trump’s team, led by campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, is bringing in allies with what LaCivita says will be a leaner, more aggressive operation with more political experience.”
They’ve also issued a series of election integrity lawsuits against states trying to cheat.
“Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls, and that’s why the National Voter Registration Act requires state officials to keep their rolls accurate and up-to-date. [Secretary of State] Jocelyn Benson has failed to follow the NVRA, leaving Michigan with inflated and inaccurate voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election. The RNC is filing this key lawsuit because Michigan voters deserve clean voter rolls and confidence in their elections,” newly minted RNC Chairman Michael Whatley released in a statement about Michigan.
“We have also hired election integrity directors in battleground states,” Whatley added at a recent RNC meeting. “We will do more. If our voters don’t have confidence that our elections are safe and secure, nothing else matters.”
The RNC is doing its part. It’s time for conservatives and Republicans to train up and beat the Democrats, the Olympians of voting, at the finish line.
