Analysis: This Republican lawyer just exposed the Trump campaign’s voter suppression efforts
At least according to Ben Ginsberg, the single most prominent Republican election lawyer in the country, who, in a scathing piece published Sunday by The Washington Post, called out President Donald Trump (and his legal team) for engaging in a widespread attempt to suppress votes in the 2020 election under the guise of sniffing out voter fraud.
“…This attempted disenfranchisement of voters cannot be justified by the unproven Republican dogma about widespread fraud. Challenging voters at the polls or disputing the legitimacy of mail-in ballots isn’t about fraud. Rather than producing conservative policies that appeal to suburban women, young voters or racial minorities, Republicans are trying to exclude their votes.”
Which, well, yeah.
Trump, because he is Trump, has repeatedly made unfounded claims that the 2020 election is rigged, that voter fraud is rampant and that the only way to combat it is to self-deputize to keep a very close watch on polling places.
“I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that’s what has to happen. I am urging them to do it. As you know, today there was a big problem. In Philadelphia, they went into watch, they were called poll watchers, a very safe very nice thing. They were thrown out. They weren’t allowed to watch. You know why? Because bad things happen in Philadelphia. Bad things. And I am urging, I am urging my people- I hope it’s gonna be a fair election. If it’s a fair election, I am 100% on board. But if I see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated. I can’t go along with that.”
As for Trump’s claim that he could see “tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated,” there is zero — and I mean ZERO — evidence in ANY past election of that sort of widespread voter fraud.
“My party is destroying itself on the Altar of Trump,” concludes Ginsberg. “Republican elected officials, party leaders and voters must recognize how harmful this is to the party’s long-term prospects.”
Yup. That about covers it.