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Ohio Secretary of State says GOP Has to Take Advantage of Early Voting and Get Votes That Way

"If the rules of the game allow you to score through early voting, absentee voting or Election Day voting, you've got to do all three of those," LaRose said.

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Charlotte Hazard

November 27, 2024

Ohio GOP Secretary of State Frank LaRose says that Republicans should use early voting to their advantage as Election Day 2024 gets closer. While the Republican Party has been slower at embracing early voting unlike their Democrat counterparts, prominent GOP members including former President Donald Trump have been encouraging the Republican base to embrace early voting.

“The rules of the game of football allow you to score three ways. You can run, you can pass or you can kick,” LaRose said. “If I was a football coach and said this whole season, ‘We’re gonna go out on the field and we’re only going to score points by running. We’re not going to pass or kick.’ We would lose.” “That’s foolish as a party,” he continued. “If the rules of the game allow you to score through early voting, absentee voting or Election Day voting, you’ve got to do all three of those.”

Other states such as Georgia are also embracing early voting as a way to win. Former Georgia GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler asserted on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast the strength of the GOP’s ground game and highlighted that early voting was about 46 percent.