The GOP is desperately trying to promote early voting, but Donald Trump will not allow them.

There is a reason why he won’t stop and why it is going to hurt the GOP’s congressional races

Shankar Narayan
5 min readOct 7, 2024

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I don’t remember who it was, but I think it was a well-known Democratic political strategist who said in an interview that if everyone votes, Donald Trump will win. I have no idea where they got that idea. It’s something some of my European friends keep telling me. Every time I hear it, my reflexive response is,

Fuck No

But saying whatever comes to mind and trying to turn it into truth isn’t something we can do. That’s what Putin and Trump’s followers do. So, let’s never go down that path. I wanted to make sure my hunch was right, so I went to the U.S. Census Bureau, downloaded their November 2020 tables, then checked Pew Research Center for Biden and Trump’s vote shares for that year and plugged the data in.

Here’s what I found.

The next time someone tells you that the United States is lost and that if everyone voted, Donald Trump would win, tell them no — he…

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Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.