Millions of Ballots Already Cast, Amid Renewed Mail-Vote Worries
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.8 | Nearly 4 million people have already cast their ballots |
| 0:27.0 | in the 2024 election. |
| 0:28.8 | But how is the Republican Party doing in its effort |
| 0:31.3 | to bank votes as worries again about rejected ballots and |
| 0:36.3 | Postal Service delivery delays. |
| 0:38.1 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.3 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal, and |
| 0:45.6 | editorial board member, the Nae Uqway Berua. There are three weeks yet to go |
| 0:50.3 | until the election on November 5, but according to the election lab at the University of Florida, which is collating the data coming out of clerk and Secretary of State's offices, there have now been 3.9 million early votes already, including more |
| 1:07.2 | than half a million early in-person votes, and more than 3.3 million mail ballots returned, add that on top of the 52 million mail |
| 1:16.4 | ballots requested so far. |
| 1:19.4 | And Kim, this is notable in part because Republicans have historically been more skeptical of early voting and male voting than Democrats have been. |
| 1:27.0 | And let's listen to Donald Trump at a recent rally talking about this. |
| 1:31.0 | The early voting begins in Pennsylvania over the next two weeks and we need each and every one of you |
| 1:37.6 | to go out just don't take anything for granted. |
| 1:40.3 | We have to win Pennsylvania. |
| 1:41.9 | You can start right away, you know that right now we have this stupid stuff where you can vote 45 days early |
| 1:47.6 | I wonder what the hell happens during that 45. Let's move the |
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