There is less than a month left until the presidential elections in the United States.
Both parties are already pooling their strength to get as many people as possible to vote early.
Republicans are said to have invested tens of millions of dollars for this purpose.
But the main figure himself, former President Donald Trump, has repeatedly rejected early voting in recent weeks, Politico reported.
Among other things, he falsely claimed that 20 percent of Pennsylvania's postal votes were “fake” and suggested that postal companies could be “losing hundreds of thousands of votes, perhaps intentionally.”
The former president's attacks on early voting are a key part of the voter fraud conspiracy theories that spread after the 2020 election.
“It sucks – it's ridiculous.”
Now a partisan rift has developed among Republicans. This comes as many within the party have spent much of the past four years trying to convince voters — as well as Trump — to embrace early voting, Politico writes.
Many Republicans warn that Trump's rhetoric on early voting threatens to undermine any action.
– It's counterproductive, David Urban, a former senior Trump campaign adviser, told the newspaper.
– When we are trying to deliver a message, and then the former president comes and says: “I don’t like it,” it becomes more difficult to convince people, he says.
Mark Graul, a Republican strategist based in Wisconsin, is also frustrated by Trump's comments.
– He sucks it up. It's ridiculous, says Mark Graul.
Graul believes early votes are crucial.
– This is how you get 5,000 or 10,000 extra votes that can determine the outcome of the election.
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