Trump wants Republicans to ‘swamp’ early voting and mail-in ballots. But he can’t stop lying about elections

Former president Donald Trump wants you to vote early or cast a ballot by mail. He also thinks that mail-in voting is irreparably corrupt and should be banned.

His campaign and the Republican Party want to “promote the use of absentee and mail ballots and early in-person voting.”

They’re also suing states to block mail-in ballots, even in states where most people vote by mail.

The criminally convicted nominee to face Joe Biden in November cannot stop spreading false claims about mail-in voting even as his own campaign pleads with Republican voters to request mail-in ballots – and use the exact same election tools that Trump and his allies have tried to criminalize.

This month, Trump’s campaign and the RNC launched “Swamp the Vote,” which uses contact information from people who signed up to get campaign updates to “generate new absentee or mail ballot registrations and early in-person voting commitments.”

“You need to make a plan, register, and vote any way possible,” Trump said in a statement announcing the plan.

Trump’s campaign has generated months of press about its renewed effort to reverse course and get people to vote early, with his hand-picked Republican National Committee chairs Lara Trump and Michael Whatley – who denied the outcome of the 2020 presidential election – going all-in on early voting and voting by mail.

But within days of the new plan, to a crowd at the far-right Turning Point Action conference, Trump called early voting “sad” and “crazy.”

“They start early. You know, it’s sad, when you have to go months early,” he said on June 15. “It’s crazy. What are they doing with all these votes? What are they doing?”

He falsely claimed to a group of conservative Christian supporters in Washington DC on June