{"id":2358449,"date":"2024-10-23T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-changes-tune-on-early-voting-commits-to-vote-ahead-of-election-day-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:43:11","slug":"trump-changes-tune-on-early-voting-commits-to-vote-ahead-of-election-day-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-changes-tune-on-early-voting-commits-to-vote-ahead-of-election-day-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump changes tune on early voting, commits to vote ahead of Election Day &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-changes-tune-on-early-voting-commits-to-vote-ahead-of-election-day-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358449&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump recently announced\u200c his intention to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-budget-resolution-in-51-50-vote\/\" title=\"Senate passes budget resolution in 51-50 vote\">vote early<\/a> in the upcoming 2024\u2064 election \u200ccycle, marking a shift from \u2064his previous preference for voting on Election Day. With only two \u2062weeks until November 5, approximately 15 million ballots have already been cast nationwide. Despite having\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-federal-elections-commission-chair-we-should-discourage-absentee-voting\/\" title=\"Ex-Federal Elections Commission Chair: We Should Discourage Absentee Voting\">criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-liberals-dumping-massive-amounts-of-money-into-georgia-senate-runoffs\/\" title=\"Hollywood Liberals Dumping Massive Amounts Of Money Into Georgia Senate Runoffs\">early voting<\/a><\/a> in the past, Trump expressed a more flexible stance, indicating he is &#8220;OK with the\u200c Tuesday voting&#8221; traditionally favored by Republicans and supports the idea of early voting for those who wish to gauge the political landscape before casting their ballots. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of early\u2062 voting demographics, about 32.5% of ballots \u200bcast so far belong to Republican voters, while 21.2% are from \u2062individuals without party affiliation or from minor \u2062parties. North Carolina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">early voting \u2064statistics show<\/a> a more balanced split, with Democratic and Republican voters closely \u2064aligned at 35.3% and 33.25%, respectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump changes tune on early voting, commits to vote ahead of Election Day<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1843490\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> announced Wednesday that he plans to vote early this <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024 cycle<\/a>, changing his strategy from voting on <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Election Day<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>With less than two weeks left until Nov. 5, some 15 million ballots are already in nationwide. Despite Trump&rsquo;s previous criticisms of voting in any other matter than in person the day of, Trump implied he would be voting sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, I&rsquo;m very mixed on it. I mean, I&rsquo;m OK with the Tuesday voting, which they like doing &mdash; Republicans like. And I&rsquo;m also I say the main thing I say is vote,&rdquo; Trump said on Fox News Radio&rsquo;s <em>The Brian Kilmeade Show<\/em> Wednesday. &ldquo;But ideally, I guess a lot of people would like to see early voting, you know, where you stand a little bit, and I&rsquo;m, I&rsquo;m OK either way, Brian, really. I really am.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Half of the states, representing roughly 7.3 million ballots so far, have also published demographics. Republicans were among 32.5% of these ballots, while voters that belong to either no party or a minor party were 21.2%.<\/p>\n<p>In the swing state of North Carolina, for example, the major parties were much more even, with 35.3% Democratic early voters, 33.25% Republican, and 31.5% from neither party. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3196058\/lara-trump-early-voting-gop-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"According to\">According to<\/a> Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, Democrats typically beat out Republicans 80 to 20 in early voting.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona, which flipped from Trump to President Joe Biden in 2020, is reporting more Republican early voters than Democratic voters, with a difference of almost 8%. Voters that belong to neither party made up about a fifth as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Trump&rsquo;s home state of Florida, Republican voters set a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FloridaGOP\/status\/1848452632567857399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record<\/a>&nbsp;for in-person voting with more than 202,000 ballots cast on the first day, almost double that of the Democratic voters, according to the Florida Republican Party. However, Democratic voters beat Republicans by about 120,000 mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>By the second day, early Republican voters still <a href=\"https:\/\/countyballotfiles.floridados.gov\/VoteByMailEarlyVotingReports\/PublicStats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"outnumbered\">outnumbered<\/a> Democratic voters by about 100,000 ballots, which were a mix of in-person and mail-in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1843490\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1843490\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump shifts stance on early voting, plans to vote early in 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2358451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump_early_voting_ballots_elections_voters_991_3.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[25322,33731,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2358449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-early-voting","tag-election-day","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump_early_voting_ballots_elections_voters_991_3.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}