The news keeps getting better and better for the Democrats following Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee.
On Thursday, RNC co-chair Lara Trump announced she hopes to hire Scott Presler, a conservative activist who has shared QAnon messages on social media, organized “anti-Sharia law” protests and appeared outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, to lead the party’s so-called “legal ballot harvesting” initiative — essentially a get-out-the-vote effort aimed at getting Republicans to vote early in person and make sure they return their mail ballots.
(The bizarre turn of phrase here comes because Republicans have long argued that “ballot harvesting” is — or at least, should be — illegal, but now that they are playing catch-up to Democrats on early voting, they need to finesse the fact that they want to do it too.)
Why is this good for Democrats? Because it’s a sign that the RNC is increasingly staffing up with a team of B-level (or worse) staffers who are more focused on spouting conspiracy theories and getting internet clout than actually doing the grueling, substantive work of winning an election.
USA Today explained Presler’s M.O. early last year, when he visited Pennsylvania in anticipation of elections in the state last fall.
The outlet reported:
MAGA Republicans in Pennsylvania often refer to the debunked conspiracy film “2000 Mules” to bolster their assertions that the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent. Playing off former President Donald Trump’s claims about widespread cheating, the movie asserts that nefarious political operatives, or “mules,” illegally collected ballots and stuffed drop boxes to help President Joe Biden capture victory. But this month, GOP activist Scott Presler told Pennsylvania Republicans they must start embracing legal ballot collection and mail-in voting, the very systems that three years of election denial have convinced them to distrust. “My argument is that each of us can become a…
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