One Republican lawmaker in one of Wisconsin’s battleground districts said Republicans need to be prepared to work just as hard as Democrats to win the 2024 election.
Rep. Brian Steele told Newstalk 1130 WISN that Republicans must vote in November.
To achieve this, he said the party must embrace all available tools.
“You have to follow the rules as written. Wisconsin law allows you to do things like early voting and absentee voting to pick up the conservative vote, but if you want to win you have to follow the rules as written,” Steil said.
This includes massive voter turnout efforts and encouraging early voting.
Steele said the effort actually began with former President Trump’s rally in Racine on Tuesday, where a team of “over 100 volunteers” rallied voters and supporters.
“Then we work to follow up and make sure they not only registered but voted, that they are actually voter banking, as President Trump now calls ‘stowing the vote,’ so at the end of the day, we can either complain about the current rules or we can win,” Steele said.
“I’m tired of losing the election in Wisconsin. To win, I have to bank my votes and vote early to dwarf the Democratic turnout I expect to see in Madison.”
2023 Report A Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate said Democrats’ early voting push and voter tracking efforts led the state’s Republican Party to enter Election Day in 2023 with 100,000 fewer votes.
But Steele acknowledged that one hurdle for Republicans will be convincing conservative voters to trust the state’s early voting.
“What we want to do to increase public confidence in our elections is have uniform rules that everyone follows,” Steele said. “The elections themselves are going to be partisan, but we want the administration of the elections to be non-partisan, and it’s imperative that the rules don’t change.”
