How Trump's Plan to Ban Mail Voting Could Cost the GOP the House

Trump is too dumb to understand why he won in 2024

Last week, in the middle of implementing a military occupation of the nation’s capital and trying to carve up Ukraine with his buddy Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump took a detour down one of his favorite rabbit holes.

Trump posted the following screed on Truth Social:

I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender and “WOKE” for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

To demonstrate his deranged ramblings, I have quoted Trump’s post in its entirety, preserving the aggressive use of the caps lock button.

It pains me to say this, but from a purely political perspective, what Donald Trump pulled off in 2024 is impressive; though his margins nationally and in the battleground states were much narrower than what he and the prevailing media narrative is pushing. It gets even dumber. Trump’s renewed interest in banning mail-in voting came after a conversation with Vladimir Putin. Trump told Sean Hannity that Putin said he knew the 2020 election was rigged because the U.S. uses mail-in balloting. Because, of course, Putin the kleptocrat is the leading expert on how to run an honest democracy.

It’s impossible to overstate the stupidity at play. But here’s the thing: Trump is damaging his own party, not ours. And the damage could cost the GOP the midterms.