Trump allies want to suppress the college student vote.
Kellyanne Conway and Cleta Mitchell target voting on campus.
Kellyanne Conway: The Left (read: Democrats) are poised to become a “turnout machine with young people.”
Solution: Make it harder for them to vote.
The problem, apparently, is that college kids think abortion should be legal, guns should be controlled, and leaders should rapidly and vigorously address climate change. That makes them list heavily to starboard in elections. Most millennials sat out the 2016 election and regretted it. They voted in massive numbers in 2020 and were part of why Biden won the election.
And this is what those attending a Republican National Committee private donor’s conference in Nashville heard last Saturday in a presentation from heavily Trump-allied election denier Cleta Mitchell, a former Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She describes how these lazy, good-for-nothing, no-load Leftist college students were going to be served by the plan to place polling stations on campuses nationwide:
“What are these college campus locations?” she asked, according to audio of the event obtained by the Washington Post. “What is this young people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed … The Left has manipulated the electoral systems to favor one side…theirs. Our constitutional republic’s survival is at stake.”
Just to note: Voting, whether favoring Democrat or Republican, does not put the republic’s survival at stake. Suppressing voting rights puts democracy at stake.
Cleta—who was on the infamous phone call in which Trump demanded Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger magically “find” him the exact number of votes he needed to beat Joe Biden in Georgia—then went on to target specific states with early voting and those that allow college students to vote with their campus IDs— Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Virginia, and Wisconsin—all of which, the Post states, “are home to enormous public universities with large in-state student populations.”
Writes Vanity Fair:
Mitchell wrote in a letter to family and friends: “Those who deny the existence of voter and election fraud are not in touch with facts and reality.” She later founded the ironically named “Election Integrity Network.”
Developing … but at last you now know who’s got a target painted on them.