The Republican Party tries to embrace mail ballots for 2024 after four years of vilifying them

The Republican National Committee launched a persuasion campaign this week to persuade the party's voters to use mail ballots in 2024, after four years of GOP candidates — including a president — falsely claiming that route inevitably leads to election fraud. The effort had a distinct take-your-medicine flavor. And party leaders winced while swallowing it. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel spent 30 minutes Wednesday pitching mail ballots and "harvesting" — ballots collected by a third party for delivery to election officials. She was joined by Republican congressional leaders hoping to expand the party...