Do the ends justify the means?
The newest reports indicate that the GOP is all-in on Ballot harvesting tactics heading into the 2024 Presidential election—something Republicans, conservatives, and Libertarians all decried in 2020.
I know that the urge to embrace ballot harvesting is incredibly tempting, but let’s just give this some thought, shall we?
Everyone reading this, myself included, wants President Trump to reclaim the Oval Office in 2024. However, and this is a giant however, everyone reading this also despises the GOP establishment.
If President Trump wins the Presidency in 2024, we will have around 4 years max to spend with America’s favorite President, then it’s back to the same old standard GOP establishment nonsense.
It cannot be stressed enough that a vast majority of Trump voters are here for Trump—they’re not here for the GOP establishment.
If the GOP embraces ballot harvesting techniques for the 2024 elections they will presumably never let go of these tactics, they’ll become standard.
Obviously, this would make elections even worse and more rigged than they are today. Do we really want the uniparty to fully embrace these tactics?
Would four years of a Presidency be worth the practically unlimited amount of cheating that would forever be enshrined in the American voting system following those short four years?
The Epoch Times shared this perspective from election integrity expert Hans Von Spakovsky:
“You play by the rules that are in place wherever you are but that doesn’t mean that you allow the status quo to stay that way,” Mr. von Spakovsky told The Epoch Times.
He also suggested that the GOP’s decision to play the ballot harvesting game should not stop voters from trying to convince their state legislators “to change the rules to get rid of ballot trafficking and allowing third-party strangers to go pick up a voter’s ballot because the risks in allowing that are too great.”
I’ll leave it up to you to decide if embracing ballot harvesting is a good idea, but the prevailing sentiment from conservative Americans is that the juice is definitely worth the squeeze.
“Ballot harvesting was a dry run for 2020. It went spectacularly. Every seat predicted on election night to be Republican went Democrat during the next days or weeks. The GOP's response to this proven tactic? Spammy text messages.”
– Cernovich
July 30, 2020 pic.twitter.com/2HZDfAru7J
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 13, 2023
“Ballot harvesting and other methods were successfully tried out, and the GOP isn’t even close to prepared for 2020.” – Cernovich
August 7, 2019. pic.twitter.com/Y8PIpBAx5G
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 13, 2023
This doesn't even take into account that the GOP is embracing ballot harvesting. 2024 is about to be very interesting. https://t.co/uOTfiPyP61
— Bateman of Arabia (@BatemanofArabia) September 18, 2023
Spoiler alert: Biden or whoever they replace him is going to win anyways.
Republicans in swing states still are not playing the same game as the Dems. Ds will be doing ballot harvesting and VBM, and the GOP won’t, so it will be lights out.
They’ll still lose GA, PA, MI, & AZ.
— Tridentine Brewing (@TridentineBrew) September 19, 2023
Earlier this year, Fox News host Sean Hannity called on Republicans to use ballot harvesting tactics:
“[Republicans] need a new approach when it comes to elections in this country.
If you watch people like Joe Biden, who was able to hide in his basement and not really campaign, and John Fetterman and Katie Hobbs out in Arizona…
They run hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars in negative ads. They hide in their basement.
They are out there with these legal ballot harvesting operations, and Republicans have not gotten in that game.
So my challenge to the Republican Party is, and every conservative, you better get in the game that exists.
And the game that exists is: embrace voting early, embrace voting by mail.”
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