Trump has spent years raging over mail-in voting. But the GOP is pushing it for the midterms

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 17 December 2025 14:34 EST


Four months ago, President Donald Trump said his Republican Party would “do everything possible” to eliminate the use of postal balloting ahead of next year’s midterm elections and claimed he was starting a “movement” against the practice.

But with less than 11 months to go until voters cast ballots that will determine whether the GOP will keep control of Congress and 48 governors’ mansions for the remainder of his term, party leaders across the country are decidedly not on board with Trump’s opposition to voting by mail.

Republicans in the key battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are actually taking concrete steps to remind voters to take advantage of programs that allow them to cast ballots by mail, including through direct mail ads, email reminders, phone calls and home visits from volunteers, along with massive digital ad campaigns.

In the Keystone State, Republican leaders are doubling down on their successful 2024 work that used $16 million to urge voters to send in their ballots for Trump, who won the state’s electoral votes over Kamala Harris last year as a result. And according to Politico, the GOP-aligned nonprofit Citizens Alliance is prepared to send volunteers to known on 750,000 voters’ doors to remind them to request absentee ballots.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mail-in-voting-gop-midterms-b2886578.html