Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump said the
Democratic Party is losing supporters, especially among minorities Ms. Trump said voters have seen four years of
President Trump and they know what he will do if he wins a second term. “People remember how much better life was for them when
Donald Trump was in office. You compare that to the last three years of
Joe Biden as president,” Ms. Trump added. “People say we don’t want this anymore. And it is showing. In 2020, Donald Trump got around 8 percent of the black vote. Right now, he’s pulling in 2024 at 23 percent with black voters. Some polling actually has him up six points with Hispanic voters over Joe Biden.” Ms. Trump pointed out that the former president leads President Biden in swing states like North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and
Florida. The number one issue for Americans is illegal
immigration, followed by the
economy, which are two areas “where Joe Biden has consistently failed.” “People want common sense. They want their life back. They want a better life and an easier life. And they know who delivered it for them. It was Donald Trump. And that is why at the RNC, we are very focused on this. We’re going after all of those voters. Donald Trump is picking them off one by one,” Ms. Trump said. “The Democratic Party’s wide lead over
Republicans in Black Americans’ party preferences has shrunk by nearly 20 points over the past three years,” the poll found. “Democrats’ leads among Hispanic adults and adults aged 18 to 29 have slid nearly as much, resulting in Democrats’ holding only a modest edge among both groups.” People switching from one party to another can have a major impact on the
election outcome, especially in situations where the margin of victory is narrow. In a March 26 opinion piece at The Hill, J. T. Young, a professional staffer in the House and
Senate from 1987-2000, pointed out that “while in 2020’s overall popular vote, Biden beat Trump by 7,060,347 votes nationwide, after subtracting out his margin of victory in
California and
New York, Biden actually lost to Trump by 36,363.” “The six states on which the electoral vote outcome depended were decided collectively by just a few tens of thousands of votes.” “We would love to have one day of voting. We'd love to have voter ID and paper ballots. We can get back to that place. But we have to do it by electing Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, expanding our lead in the House, and taking back the Senate. And then maybe we get back there one day,” she said. “We are going to have a legal ballot harvesting operation at the RNC. It’s something that has never been done before. But yes, 224 days to victory. We are going to get it done because we have no other options.” Ms. Trump encouraged supporters to vote for the GOP “as soon as you can go vote” and asked them to encourage other people to vote for the party. “If Joe Biden is successful, if the
Democrats are successful in November, it means they are able to employ communist tactics ... against their political opponents. It means that on the other side of this, we do not have the same country left. So, we’re focused. We’re working hard. And we’re going to make sure that on November 5th, there are no questions, Donald Trump will unanimously be the president of the
United States.” President Trump has also been supportive of such efforts. In fundraising emails sent out by the
Trump campaign in February 2023, the former president made it clear that he was embracing ballot harvesting. “The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with
elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back,” the former president said in one of the emails. The “path forward” will be to “MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”