Trump Campaign Recruiting Voter Suppression ‘Army’ Across States

Eight state Republican parties are actively recruiting for Donald Trump’s 2020 Election Day voter suppression efforts.

Trump’s reelection campaign and its allies are aiming to recruit up to 50,000 volunteers to challenge any votes and voters they deem suspicious in targeted states, as the New York Times reported recently. This is part of a $20 million effort to undermine voting rights and make it difficult to participate in the November election.

The effort comes, the paper noted, after the expiration of a decades-old court order prohibiting the Republican Party from suppressing minority voting under the guise of preventing fraud. Continue reading.