The campaign for President Donald Trump announced Thursday that it will fulfill one of his longstanding promises in the 2024 election: matching Democrats with an army of ballot harvesting operatives in battleground states.
The Washington Times reported that the Trump camp is getting in on the action in states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin which have legalized the practice of collecting ballots from other voters and turning them in at a drop box. While other voices in the Republican Party have called for ballot harvesting to be outlawed, the former president has taken a leading role in pledging to “beat Democrats at their own game.”
“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. But there’s something important we want to add…some of those states have legalized BALLOT HARVESTING. At the beginning of the year, President Trump made a major announcement that our campaign would ballot harvest in the states where it’s legal to counter the Left’s schemes,” stated the Trump campaign’s email.
The former president’s latest message builds on an email his team sent in February where he concluded, “Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game.” Both announcements were followed by fundraising pleas to match a planned $6 million blitz by liberal billionaire George Soros to ramp up Democrats’ ballot harvesting in battleground states.
Harvesting ballots during the 2020 election became a major focal point in the fallout following President Trump’s surprise loss to President Joe Biden. Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza released his documentary “2000 Mules” which raised questions about whether the practice by Democrats broke laws and changed the outcome of the presidential election. Other Republicans like Kari Lake, the party’s 2022 nominee for governor in Arizona, have filed suits alleging that the practice led to thousands of dead people voting in a coordinated scheme to disenfranchise voters, an argument the state’s courts have so far failed to take up.