Trump Needs to Suppress the Vote to Win

“Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent. He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages,” Politico reports.

“The president’s inability to capture a majority of support sheds light on his extraordinary attempts to limit the number of votes cast across the battleground state map — a massive campaign-within-a-campaign to maximize Trump’s chances of winning a contest in which he’s all but certain to earn less than 50 percent of the vote…”

“Never before in modern presidential politics has a candidate been so reliant on wide-scale efforts to depress the vote as Trump.”