Ronna McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee, called on her party to get behind early voting after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.
“This has to be the norm going forward. We can’t expect to get everything on Election Day,” said McDaniel in an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday.
Nearly 86 million early votes were cast in this year’s presidential election, a figure that includes roughly 46.7 million in-person votes and about 39.4 million ballots returned by mail, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
The turnout is notably down from a record set during the 2020 election when more than 100 million votes were cast in-person or by mail prior to Election Day.
A number of battleground states, however, saw record-breaking turnouts for early voting, The Hill reported.
McDaniel, who pushed false voter fraud claims following Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, called on Republicans in 2022 to stop opposing early voting after an…
