'This will end badly': Conservative says one Trump policy is killing his chances in 2024

Trump's mistrust in mail-in voting might blow up in his face.

That's according to conservative pundit Rick Wilson.

In his recent edition of his Substack titled "The Seeds Of Their Destruction", he laid out how the former president is talking himself and Republicans into a losing strategy.

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"If you have mail-in voting you automatically have fraud," Trump told Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham during a Tuesday town hall at the Greenville Convention Center in South Carolina.

That claim was challenged by her and at the same time cheered by the audience.

But Wilson considers Trump's logic to preach his "personal hobbyhorses" of slamming early voting to be severely askew.

"Given that his people take his every word as gospel — both seriously and literally, if you will — and believe he has special knowledge, this will end badly," he writes.

He then noted that the GOP has been benefiting for many elections by cracking the mail-in ballot code to great success.

"It’s not cheating or gerrymandering; a big part of it was finally getting the art and science of early voting down pat," writes Wilson. "Mail-in ballots, early poll openings, and so on were scaled by Republicans as a winning tactic over the last 25 years."

Trump's anti-mail campaign clashes with GOP's position which has been pushing for it.

So the former president's go-it-alone strategy is going to hurt his chances should he become the GOP nominee, according to Wilson.

"The GOP professional class knows without early voting, they’re positively, utterly screwed," he wrote on Wednesday, adding that the more Trump "tells the base not to vote by mail, vote absentee, or vote early, the harder it is for the people running the hard, mechanical parts of the turnout operation to make it happen for Trump."

Wilson hopes Trump remains entrenched on his anti-mail-in voting stance.

"I hope he keeps this line of attack on early voting going until Election Day."