RNC Pushes Mail Ballots 7 Weeks Before Midterms as Trump Denounces Supreme Court Rebuff
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Updated · USA TODAY · Sep 15
RNC Pushes Mail Ballots 7 Weeks Before Midterms as Trump Denounces Supreme Court Rebuff
3 articles · Updated · USA TODAY · Sep 15
Summary
An RNC email sent Sept. 14 urged voters to "request your mail-in ballot NOW," linking to its SwampTheVote site with state-by-state ballot and registration tools.
That push landed a day after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's bid to federalize election administration for the Nov. 3 midterms, prompting him to call mail voting a "corrupt" disaster.
The split is not new: the RNC launched its "Bank Your Vote" campaign in 2023, and Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson later promoted early or pre-Election Day voting.
Mail-ballot politics carry a clear partisan incentive. MIT's Election Data & Science Lab found 37% of Democrats used mail ballots in 2024 versus 24% of Republicans, down from 60% and 32% in 2020.