Inventing Hypocrisy: CNN is Campaigning for Kamala Harris

The Corporate News Network wants you to think that Donald Trump is a hypocrite for promoting mail-in voting while also claiming it's liable to fraud

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a head coach in the National Football League, you may pick whatever team you prefer. Let’s also imagine that you disagree with one of the official rules of the NFL in your capacity as a head coach. For me, I believe that they are too quick to penalize hitting a quarterback, even though I understand the reasoning. Regardless, as head coach do you stand on principle and tell your players to disregard the rule, and put yourself at a disadvantage as you continually get penalized by the referees for disregarding the rule? Or, do you follow the rule since it is part of the game whether or not you personally like it?

CNN is suggesting that the Trump campaign is hypocritical for both lambasting early, mail-in voting as being more prone to fraud than voting in person, which is fairly common sense, while also telling supporters to utilize early, mail-in voting.

Donald Trump’s campaign is making a last-minute push to advocate for early and mail-in voting, methods the former president has falsely vilified for years as dangerous and fraudulent.

With less than a month to go in a tight race, Trump’s campaign is urging people to vote early and by mail, while also working to expand voting access in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.

In a series of recent virtual town halls and robocalls reviewed by CNN, Trump and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, have actively encouraged voters to take advantage of early voting options, including mail-in ballots.

“Hi, this is Lara Trump calling on behalf of President Trump’s campaign, and we’re urging you to get out and vote before Election Day,” one robocall says. Earlier this year, Lara Trump voiced a robocall falsely alleging massive fraud in the 2020 election due to mail-in ballots.

CNN, of course, is supporting the Kamala Harris campaign, and so has every reason to try to make the Trump campaign look bad.

Mail-in voting is more likely to engender voter-fraud than traditional voting in-person. It’s easier to scam a ballot where there is no human interaction than when there is. It really is that simple. That Donald Trump points this out doesn’t make it less true, regardless of organizations like CNN needing to “fact-check” everything he says as false regardless of its veracity. That said, mail-in voting is a part of American elections for better or worse, and it would make no sense for the Trump campaign to put themselves at a disadvantage by refusing to utilize it as much as they possibly can. It’s not hypocritical to engage with the system as it exists while also pointing out that there are reforms or changes to the system that you would like to enact.

Mail-in ballots would not disappear simply because the Trump campaign stood on principle and refused to use them, just as the hypothetical NFL rule would not disappear if a head-coach told his players to ignore it. CNN would love that, however. They would love for the Trump campaign to put themselves at a disadvantage by refusing to utilize mail-in ballots while the Harris campaign promotes them as much as possible to her supporters. They know that’s never going to happen, however, so, instead, they put out this propaganda trying to make maroons think that it’s hypocritical for the Trump campaign to engage with the system as it exists. Just more evidence that corporate media outlets like CNN should have to register as campaign proxies for Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party.