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“OK? I’m serious,” he continued. “We need to vote and vote early. Get your butts to the polls. Get them out there right now. Before the early voting ends, we must bank votes.”

The messaging around early voting has shifted dramatically for Republicans this cycle compared with Trump’s 2020 run, when he and his allies cast doubt around the legitimacy of voting early. Even now, Trump and some supporters have expressed doubts about the security of voting by mail or voting early, though Trump himself has voted in that manner.

“We only have so many resources at our disposal during a campaign,” Bossie said. “And when we’re chasing people like you, OK, we’re wasting campaign time and resources. We must bank your votes early so we can go chase and find those low-propensity voters that are going to turn out for Donald Trump.”

The deadline to vote early in Pennsylvania is Monday.

“We’re going to have to get uncomfortable,” Slippery Rock Mayor JD Longo said. “We’re going to have to do things we’ve never done before. … Folks, please, I beg you. Just hear me out, guys: When we vote early, we free up valuable campaign resources that will allow for all these nice folks and the campaign at large to focus on those individuals who might not be so motivated as you and I to get out and vote.”

As of today, registered Democrats account for 60.2% of the ballots submitted in Pennsylvania, while 29.9% are from Republicans and 10% more are from independents or third-party voters. That’s a slight improvement for Republicans compared with the election in 2020, when Republicans ultimately accounted for 24% of the mail-in and early in-person vote, while Democrats made up 65% of that vote.

“Pennsylvania Republicans do not tend to vote early,” said Carla Sands, who was Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. “I’m asking you to change that and save our country.”