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FakeNoose

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 12:19 PM Oct 6

Trump wants to get rid of mail voting. Pennsylvania Republicans are urging voters to use it. [View all]



Spotlight PA link: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/10/pennsylvania-republicans-mail-voting-trump-supreme-court-elections/

(Why is he wearing a suit and hard leather shoes on the golf course? Who is he pointing at?)

In August, President Donald Trump vowed on social media to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS.”

Pennsylvania Republicans, though, are sending voters a different message as they work to unseat three state Supreme Court justices this November, a historically difficult feat that will require turning out as many voters as they can.

“In 2024, we voted by mail and flipped Pennsylvania red,” a video ad from the Republican State Leadership Committee said, before urging voters to go to a website to request their mail ballots for the judicial election.

Republican voters in the commonwealth have been getting these kinds of conflicting messages for years, said veteran GOP consultant Christopher Nicholas, noting that Trump’s opposition to mail voting in particular has meant “it has taken our base longer to integrate new voting options.” But as state-level Republicans increasingly embrace mail voting, it appears voters are starting to as well.

For this November’s election, about 12,000 more Republican voters have requested mail ballots than did for the last municipal election in 2023, and there are still more than three weeks left to request a ballot.
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It had to come to this, and I'm surprised it took the Repukes this long to catch on.

Democrats need to revise our game regarding the mailed ballots - we can't let the Repukes take this advantage away from us. They've already taken so much else.

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