Ex-RNC Chair Calls For Early Voting To Become GOP’s ‘Norm’ Following Trump Win
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Ronna McDaniel embraced the option after a number of battleground states saw record-breaking early voting turnouts.
Ronna McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee, called on her party to get behind early voting after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.
“This has to be the norm going forward. We can’t expect to get everything on Election Day,” said McDaniel in an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday.
Nearly 86 million early votes were cast in this year’s presidential election, a figure that includes roughly 46.7 million in-person votes and about 39.4 million ballots returned by mail, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
The turnout is notably down from a record set during the 2020 election when more than 100 million votes were cast in-person or by mail prior to Election Day.
A number of battleground states, however, saw record-breaking turnouts for early voting, The Hill reported.