Five Things the GOP Needs to Do to Win in 2024 GUEST COLUMN
can leaders should encourage early voting, ballot harvesting where it’s legal, and strenuous election oversight. Win Media Battles Legacy media is the Democrats’ primary and most useful politi- cal weapon against Republicans. Whereas the media used to be merely biased, now it is engaged in outright propaganda. It is responsible for craft- ing fake news, such as the Russia collusion lie and the Kavanaugh rape smear. It will frame and amplify stories that help Democrats and downplay and mischaracterize those that help Republicans. Legacy media helps Democrats normalize lawfare, push radical transgender ideology, keep borders open, and pass anti-po- lice initiatives. Republican leaders need to be far smarter at engaging the media as an actual political opponent, if not their primary political opponent. At every opportunity, they must publicly ques-
Election Day where people arrive to vote and where results are announced the same evening, we now have an “election season.” The period can last weeks and even months before and after Election Day. Tens of millions of unsupervised ballots are mailed to addresses and trafficked by armies of left-wing activists who are fielded by well-funded outside groups. Then, lawyers fight over the rules determin- ing the eligibility of those ballots. Until Republicans can successfully improve election laws in their states, they must stay competitive with Democrats, who will be aggressively banking votes months before Elec- tion Day. Republicans will need to compete with Democrat infrastruc- tures including unions and other special interest groups that are paid to traffic mail-in ballots. And they’ll have to perform oversight of the entire months-long election season, not just Election Day. If they want to win elections in competitive districts, Republi-
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
R epublican presidential nominee Donald Trump is leading in the polls, even as Democrat politi- cians and their policies are receiving historically low approval ratings. But if Republicans think that all it’s going to take to win in November is to show up in force on Election Day, they need to wake up. Here are five things that the GOP needs to do to secure victory in November. Vote Operations The nature of elections has changed radically in recent years. Instead of an
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