A former White House staffer for Donald Trump said comments made Monday by her old boss reminded her of 2020 whiplash she witnessed of conflicting comments between Trump and his campaign.
During a visit to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump called the idea of early voting "stupid."
"Now we have this stupid stuff where you can vote 45 days early," he told MAGA supporters. "I wonder what the hell happens during those 45 days. 'Let's move the — see these votes? We've got about a million votes. Let's move them. We're fixing the air conditioner in the room' right? No. It's terrible. What happened the last time was disgraceful, including right here."
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pointed out to a panel on her show, "The Source," that Trump's daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair, Laura Trump, has encouraged people to vote early.
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Reacting to Collins, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in multiple roles during the Trump administration, said a similar conflict happened four years ago. Trump's campaign wanted him to promote early and mail-in voting during the pandemic. But the MAGA leader cast doubt on the legitimacy of the practice.
"He's got something — intellectually, he cannot accept the fact that you can vote early. It can be safe. It can be tabulated. He just has this very arcane way of looking at it," she said.
Trump's messaging also gets to his strategy of casting doubt on the results in case he loses, she said.
"He's incapable of losing and accepting that he lost," said Griffin, adding this is why Trump has blamed Jewish leaders, jabbed at Catholics and cast doubt on the system.
"It's kind of two-fold. He genuinely does not, in my understanding, trust early voting. But he also wants to have something to blame if he loses," she said.
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