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22 Oct 2024, 9:48 pm

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4940 ... hallenges/

why is the GOP attacking overseas military members in this way? what do they have against the Reagan era law guaranteeing overseas military members access to the vote?



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22 Oct 2024, 9:57 pm

Because those overseas recognise there is somewhere other than the USA, hence know basic geography and therefore cannot belong to the MAGA movement?
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22 Oct 2024, 10:03 pm

seems they are biting themselves in the leg here, by doing that they are deliberately perturbing one of their major constituencies, the military. there is no good sense in that.



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22 Oct 2024, 10:07 pm

[assumption=mine]

a. Most overseas votes are cast by military personnel.
b. Mr. Trump has declared military personnel "losers" and "suckers".
: : Overseas military personnel are not likely to vote for someone who calls them "losers" and "suckers".

[/assumption]

Now, Mr. Trump may have been referring to dead military personnel in this way; but as a veteran myself, this alone is enough to turn my vote toward "Anyone but Trump".



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22 Oct 2024, 11:13 pm

Higher voter turn-out doesn't help the GOP so they favour restricting voting as much as possible.


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23 Oct 2024, 6:55 pm

^^^^GOP insiders have thought this since reagan's time, this was voiced back in the day by paul weyrich, a key GOP operative.