A longtime Republican lawyer who aided Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election told GOP donors that the party should be working to roll back voting on college campuses.
“If the GOP had won the, they would’ve — as this speech makes clear — engineered a crackdown on student voter freedoms,” Wikler wrote on Twitter. “Instead, thanks in part to student turnout, democracy lives on in Wisconsin.”
Republican lawmakers in dozens of states across the country have introduced at least 150 bills aimed at restricting ballot access this year,“Two of the more radical proposals include a Texas bill that would allow presidential electors to disregard state election results and a Virginia bill that would empower a random selection of residents to void local election results,” the group observed.
Mitchell pointed specifically to North Carolina, where Republicans now have veto-proof majorities in both legislative chambers thanks to erstwhile Democratic state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who recently“Instead of fighting for the people or actually earning the votes, Republicans’ only plan is to try to ‘combat’ voting on college campuses and prevent students and young people from participating in our democracy,” Rep.
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