Over 158 million Americans voted in the 2020 elections, representing roughly two-thirds of all eligible U.S. voters. Despite this historic engagement, U.S. voter participation continues to lag behind that of similarly advanced democracies around the world.
Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten argues that in their efforts to mobilize more voters, various U.S. organizations, including public and non-profit groups, have effectively participated in a Democrat-led scheme. The scheme, Weingarten alleges, targets Democratic-leaning persons and places, and intentionally results in more registered Democratic voters than anything else.
Donald Trump faces a veritable lawfare barrage from Democrats, an effective information war from corporate media and Big Tech – save for X – and a whole slew of other challenges as he tries to take back the White House. Despite all that, in much of the national and battleground state polling, Trump continues to lead incumbent President Joe Biden in 2024.
To me, there’s an under-the-radar threat looming over these numbers that Republicans will have to overcome to prevail from top to bottom on the ticket. Democrats have developed something like a vertically-integrated voter registration and get-out-the-vote machine, one that seems unethical if not illegal in nature, that persists and appears to have proven decisive in 2020.
Now, it has the full backing of the federal government – funded with our tax dollars – in the form of so-called Bidenbucks. In March 2021, the president introduced Executive Order 14019. The directive on “promoting access to voting” orders every federal agency, more than 600 in all, to register and mobilize voters – particularly “people of color” and others the White House says face “challenges to exercise their fundamental right to vote.” It directs the agencies to collaborate with ostensibly non-partisan nonprofits in pursuit of its goals. The order is portrayed as noble and non-political, but the reality is different.