House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) argued that a key change in this election cycle has Democrats worried, as voter turnout in some swing states could be lower compared to 2020.
Comer was asked about any concerns Republicans have about ballot challenges that could occur in swing states, as a judge in Georgia just halted a rule mandating ballots to be hand-counted. The Kentucky lawmaker said Republicans have been assured that problems Georgia had in the 2020 election have been resolved, one of which was “universal absentee ballots” mailed out to residents before Election Day.
“And they just had tremendous turnout in these big cities, in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and as you can imagine, Joe Biden got record percentage and a record number of votes in those big cities with absentee ballots,” Comer said on Newsmax’s Wake Up America. “Now, today, they’ve cut out the universal ballots in those three states, the three states that Republicans were most concerned about from the previous election. So I believe one reason the Democrats are in panic and the mainstream media is in panic on TV is they’ve come to the realization that a lot of these people that voted in the last election, that voted absentee with a universal absentee ballot, they’re more than likely not going to vote this election.”
Comer added that the 2024 election is going to be one in which voters will have to “go back to the way they always did it” by going to vote in-person, and claimed that Congress has made it easier for them to do this by expanding early voting. As such, he encouraged voters to partake in early voting to “beat the lines on Election Day.”
Comer also dismissed national polling data indicating that Vice President Kamala Harris is slightly ahead of former President Donald Trump, as the election is determined by the Electoral College. He added that “the momentum” has shifted in Trump’s favor compared to a few days ago. Comer predicted the former president would win all the battleground states.
Early voting in Georgia started on Tuesday, three weeks before the presidential election. Like Comer and other Republicans, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) has pushed for voters to vote early.
Today is the first day of early in-person voting here in the Peach State. Let’s get to the polls and keep Georgia red this November!
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— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) October 15, 2024
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Georgia is a state that Trump narrowly lost when he sought reelection in 2020, and is one of several battleground states he is seeking to reclaim this election cycle against Harris. The former president returned to the Peach state on the first day of early voting, in which he conducted a town hall with a women-only audience.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to campaign for Harris in Georgia, where she will appear at a campaign rally in Atlanta. Her husband, former President Barack Obama, has been hitting the campaign trail for Harris in Pennsylvania, another key swing state.