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by refurb 2153 days ago
Hate to break it to you, but it’s more complicated than that. You may want to do some reading from the other side, you sound like you’re parroting Democratic talking points.

NYTimes disagrees with you that higher turnout always helps the Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/upshot/2020-election-turn...

Typically increased turnout helps the Democrats, but that’s not necessarily true now.

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Edited to remove the 3 words, “because it’s true,” that projected from past elections into this election.

You’re right that the Republicans may very well be hurting themselves by disrupting Americans’ right to vote. They might be hurting themselves. They are definitely hurting our democracy.

Then why are republicans fighting so hard to keep people who should legally be allowed to vote from voting? They can’t be doing it because they think it will hurt their chances.
Being able to produce a counterargument does not qualify the original argument as "parroting talking points".
> NYTimes disagrees with you that higher turnout always helps the Democrats.

Well maybe Trump doesn't read the NYTimes:

"Trump says Republicans would ‘never’ be elected again if it was easier to vote"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republ...

You’re wrong.