Benjamin Ginsberg, an electoral advocacy expert who was co-chair of the 2013 bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, published an opinion piece in the newspaper The Washington Post in which draws attention to the “failure” in Trump’s leadership and Republican attempts to suppress votes that have been denounced in several contested states in the presidential election.
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“President Trump failed the leadership test. His bid for reelection is failing. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multi-million dollar effort to disenfranchise voters, first seeking to block state laws to facilitate voting during the pandemic and now, in the final stages of the campaign, challenging ballots. individual voters who are unlikely to support it, “he says in his opinion piece published in The Washington Post.
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“This is as un-American as it sounds. It returns the Republican Party to the old days of ‘voter suppression’ that led to a court order to stop such tactics … It places the party on the wrong side of demographic changes in this country that threaten to turn the Republican Party into a permanent minority, “he details.
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Ginsberg is a Republican who served as National Counsel for the Bush and Cheney presidential campaigns in the 2004 and 2000 election cycles. He served as National Counsel for the Romney for President Campaign in 2012 and in the Republican Governors Association.
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The expert denied the idea promoted by Trump of his alleged massive fraud. Trump stated that if he loses the election, basically, it is because there was an alleged fraud.
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Ginsberg dice: “I spent four decades in the Republican trenches, representing GOP Congressional and presidential campaigns, working on Election Day operations, recounts, redistricting and other matters, including attempting to lift the consent decree … The truth is, during all those years Republicans found only isolated incidents of fraud. ”
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“While facing loss, Trump has devoted his campaign and the Republican Party to this myth of voter fraud. Unable to articulate a convincing plan for a second term or find an attack on Joe Biden that sticks, depriving enough voters has been become the key to his re-election strategy. “
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“Trump has recruited an obedient Republican Party in this shameful effort. The Trump campaign and Republican entities participated in more than 40 voting cases … across the country this year. Exactly none, zero, are they trying to facilitate the vote of the citizens. In many, they seek to erect barriers, “he says.
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He closed his editorial stating that his “Party is destroying itself on the Trump Altar …. Fellow Republicans, look what we’ve become. We are the ones who must fix this. Trump should not be re-elected. Vote, but not for him. “
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