Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of election workers to monitor poll sites

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

04/19/2024 05:00 AM EDT


Former President Donald Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor — and potentially challenge — vote counting in November. The initiative — which the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee described as “the most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history” — will include training poll watchers and workers as well as lawyers.

The program underscores Trump’s ongoing fixation with election security, which he deployed in an attempt to undermine the results of the 2020 election despite the widespread conclusion, even among Republican officials, that there was no widespread fraud. Trump has warned supporters, without evidence, that Democrats could try to rig the 2024 election. Trump made the same false claims about the 2020 election, which he unsuccessfully tried to overturn.

Trump has privately complained that his political apparatus was not adequately prepared for the legal battles in the 2020 election. He has made clear to advisers that he would like a more robust effort to be able to challenge election results as needed. It’s also a sign that, should Trump once again attempt to overturn the election, he will already have in place tens of thousands of workers who could help with that effort.

In a statement, Trump said, “Having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on Election Day.” According to the announcement, the Trump operation plans to deploy lawyers to monitor voter machine testing, early voting, election day voting, mail ballot processing and post-election canvassing, auditing and recounts. The campaign also plans to station lawyers at mail-in voting processing centers and set up a hotline that poll watchers and voters can use to report problems.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-campaign-election-monitoring-00153217

[gab13by13]

1. Define "election workers."

[jimfields33]

5. He thinks he's special

Each party already does this every election. He’s an idiot.

[hauckeye]

2. I wonder if they'll be carrying....

[keithbvadu2]

32. Willl theybe displaying their big, manly

peckers/guns and strutting around looking important and powerful?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. A solution in search of a problem

Will courts hold as well as in 2020? Watchers to watch the watchers are needed. District and State AGs should be gearing up. Keep these loons out of polling places. Their only purpose is corruption of the ballot box.

[Firestorm49]

4. What he really means is about 10 observers, not hundreds. 😆😆😆

[BumRushDaShow]

8. THIS👆👆👆

"10s of" or even "1 of" (if that - and most likely at the large urban vote counting places)

They won't have enough $$$ to afford what they claim.

[PatSeg]

22. That was my initial reaction

There's no money for any grand schemes. It is all going for Trump's lawyers.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. +infinity

He has 4 "major" trials and that is not including all the many "lawsuits" that have been filed against him that may become new trials.

[PatSeg]

27. The man may end up under indictment

until the day he dies. Maybe even longer actually. His estate could be sued after he passes.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. I expect he (or more accurately, his accountants)

had been busily moving stuff into his kids' names although 2 of them are under the gun themselves (and another just separated her own empire from the family - supposedly). I wouldn't be surprised if Tiffany and Barron (who just turned 18), cash in.

[PatSeg]

33. That makes sense and is a common practice

I wonder how much there is to move though.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. I remember seeing a bunch of recent articles that discussed the "wealth transfer"

loophole that will expire in 2 years with the tax cuts for the wealthy law. I expect that is being utilized.

One article that describes it - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/high-net-worth-families-racing-133000686.html

[PatSeg]

48. How nice that Trump was able to sign a bill

that ended up benefiting him in so many ways.

Still, he needs wealth in order to transfer wealth. Even his properties could be leveraged to the max.

[BumRushDaShow]

49. People like him

have so many straw companies stashing actual money, it took NY AG James a year and a 200+-page filing for her civil fraud against him and the company, that managed to tease out just some of it within the statute of limitations.

[PatSeg]

50. How exhausting

I like everything upfront and simple. I would make a terrible wealthy person.

I'm really looking forward to that trial.

[BumRushDaShow]

51. That's why they leave it to their "accountants" to handle

(like Weisselberg, who took the hit and now sits in Riker's for another stint)

[PatSeg]

53. Yeah, it is a very different world

I'm not sure I'd trust other people with my money, but I guess when you have that much, you have no choice.

[PatrickforB]

9. Yeah, I agree with you. After what has happened to all these Jan. 6 insurrectionists, I'm thinking

a lot of these people will stay out of stuff like this.

[underpants]

11. Yeah consider everything we've seen/heard from Clustertrump

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Two weeks etc.

Remember that Jason Miller is running this show based mostly on groveling fealty and sycophantic obedience. Imagine him needing to report SOMETHING to Trump so he comes up with this grand beautiful plan. Consider too that his boss has the attention span of a squirrel and if such a plan really exists, Trump can alter everything on a whim.

[mahina]

45. The language definitely has the Miller...aroma

[Hugin]

39. And, they will be posted at already red voting districts...

Yada…. Yada…. Interrupt… Enemy… Mistakes… So on.

[jvill]

6. Campaigns don't have election workers... that would be illegal.

Misleading headline. Nice to see journalists have learned nothing about covering Trump.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. They may be just quoting the announcement but I expect since the RNC is "the party"

and the campaign has taken over "the party" (RNC), then they mean "party officials/workers". I.e., parties are permitted to have "observers", etc. at polling locations as long as they don't interfere with the process.

[samplegirl]

7. What gives Trump this kind of

Power??? Another reason his con ass needs locked up.
Our Elections will turn out keeping people away who are scared!

[Omnipresent]

16. It really is past his jail time.

I hope he’s locked up before the repugnant convention.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't think that they'll get it off the ground.

I do recommend visiting the website for information on state by state guidelines.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/electioneering-prohibitions

❤️

[underpants]

14. Remember the super awesome app ORCA during Romney's campaign?

https://www.businessinsider.com/romney-project-orca-election-day-collapse-2012-11

Insiders Explain How Mitt Romney's Campaign Completely Fell Apart On Election Day

A major source of Romney's GOTV problems appears to have been the disastrous Project ORCA, an expensive technological undertaking that was supposed to provide the campaign with real-time poll monitoring that would allow Republicans to target GOTV efforts on Election Day.

But on almost all counts, ORCA failed miserably. In a fascinating piece for Ace of Spades, Romney poll-watcher John Ekdahl describes a perfect storm of technology problems that made the ORCA app unusable and left scores of Republican volunteers "wandering around confused and frustrated" on Election Day.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Don't get me wrong. I want them to devote unlimited resources to their plan.

Less money for actual campaigns and more money paying the lawyers, etc. I'm all for them creating major distractions and razor thin resources.

Plus, I'm pretty sure egos are going to clash and volunteers will want to be paid. I see the whole thing tanking spectacularly, not unlike Romney's plan.

They're going to be just like the gang that couldn't shoot straight, the movie* and the concept.

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gang_That_Couldn't_Shoot_Straight

[Chainfire]

12. Good! Let them squander resources on a project that will be fruitless.

Tump senses that he will lose again and he is already beginning the whinning that will last the rest of his life. I just wonder how "rigged election" will play the second time around.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Yeah I think he waited until about June 2020 to start whining about "rigged"

so it's happening much earlier this time.

[Omnipresent]

17. I hope DC police are prepared for the next insurection.

They should repeat to themselves, like the little engine that kept saying, “I think I can”.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

18. We must take it seriously and...

...prepare accordingly, but I don't believe it will happen. Just another threat from racist white boys who never seem to show up. They're too busy playing war games in the woods.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Never work, and here's why.

Trump doesn't need lily white suburban polls "monitored". Enough of them will carry him.
He needs these slovenly "volunteers" in Watts, Hough, East LA, and Selma, places where unarmed republicans fear to tread, let alone attempt to intimidate.

Once a volunteer gets his assignment there would be a huge drop out rate.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Especially after what happened with this

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rudy-giuliani-loses-bid-dismiss-148-million-defamation/story?id=109264527

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-yankees-apartment-b2524096.html

[BootinUp]

23. 100,000 knuckledraggers and karens, more like it. nt

[Silent Type]

25. We have poll watchers too.

[Icanthinkformyself]

26. The problem for the Republicans

They have little or no money as the orange POS has hoovered it all. Lawyers will do some pro bono, but still have to pay the bills. If there is no money don't expect the best to show up. And, the volunteers will be trailer trash at best, ignorant and uneducated, even the ones who graduated college.

[CousinIT]

28. Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of his cult terrorists to intimidate poll workers and voters

THERE.

Title is now accurate.

You're welcome.

[Beartracks]

29. "Having the right people to count the ballots..."

I think Trump and his cabal's definition of "the right people" is probably very different than the typical American's definition.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

55. Words that Joseph Stalin could have written.

This is the important part of this message.

[Ford_Prefect]

31. I reiterate the point that anything like this which he has threatened/promised takes coordination and tactical planning

of the kind he has yet to provide. They are still the inept and ill informed gang who cannot lie straight, let alone organize a run for donuts and cofeve. IMO by the time we arrive at election day the GOP will be so poorly funded, due to tRump's larceny and legal costs, they'll be lucky to pay for postage. This time around he has divided and decimated GOP rank and file beyond the capacity to produce the show of force his rhetoric envisions.

And as we know from past experience, Everything he says is a LIE.

[KS Toronado]

34. Simply more random BS to fire his base up for donations.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. Yup

They got their 1-man band out there to distract (apologies to the great Dick Van Dyke)!

[Doodley]

36. Fascism 101 again.

[SpankMe]

38. "Trump campaign will deploy thousands of election deniers to intimidate at poll sites" n/t

[MissMillie]

40. Some (maybe most) states have rules about observers

So let's hope they're not going to ignore the rules and then cry fould when their "observers" can't be observers.

[LudwigPastorius]

41. Fixed that for you, Politico.

Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of election workers thugs to monitor poll sites intimidate voters.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. And to update your update

Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands tens of election workers thugs to monitor poll sites intimidate voters.

[PortTack]

43. With what...they have no money!

[Oopsie Daisy]

44. They'll all be wearing cammo, red-hats, flack-jackets, and carrying an assortment of high-capacity firearms *

* they'll be unshaven and unkempt, and overweight ("meal-team-six&quot . — I believe the folks still searching for Jan-6 insurrectionists will likely find them as part of this group.

[Mz Pip]

46. The "right people."

I can only imagine the sneaky tactics his “right people “ would use. It’s telling he doesn’t say honest people.

[iluvtennis]

47. Not election workers - they will be gun toting MAGAts to intimidate voters.

[Joinfortmill]

52. If he's not in prison?

[Freethinker65]

54. Dozens of unpaid disrupters at a few polling sites

Many of Trump's worshippers are too fearful to leave their "small towns" to go to a place where they won't be surrounded by fellow Trump worshippers. Attending a rally? perhaps. Venturing as an individual, or tiny assigned group, to a random polling place in an unfamiliar area? Nope.

[AnnaLee]

56. Who watches the watchers? ntp

[Bayard]

57. Dems need to put thousands of watchers into play,

To watch the watchers, and ensure there is no intimidation or funny business with the machines.

[EarthFirst]

58. He cannot assemble enough attorneys to run simultaneous criminal indictments...

What makes him believe he can assemble thousands of attorneys willing to sacrifice their careers for TSF?

[LiberalLovinLug]

59. Democrats could also do this. But more effective would be to make sure of documentation

Make sure all polling stations are fully video covered. That all security procedures are doubled and ready to go. So that any whining afterwards by magats can be quickly and easily debunked.

[ananda]

60. And Democrats will deploy even more to keep them in line.

...

[brooklynite]

61. Meh...

There are TENS of thousands of voting precincts. There have ALWAYS been poll watchers at most of them.