Trump’s resounding victory and his declared mandate had many talking about ways the GOP leader could maximize the impact of his second administration. While he himself advanced pursuits of Second Amendment protections, congressional term limits, and a Great American State Fair, supporters were ready to put election integrity in the spotlight with a national election holiday.
“What I care about is how are we actually going to fix it in a lasting way,” businessman and campaign surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy told Tucker Carlson during a post-election conversation (well-worth listening to in full). “I think we can do this nationally, where you make the election a national holiday, put it on a single day… at least for a federal election.
People can rejoice…it would take a lot of stress off people, too.”
(Video: Tucker Carlson)
Ramaswamy continued, “All 50 states have a bare minimum standard of single-day voting, paper ballots, government-issued ID to match the voter file. Period,” he argued. “And I think more or less we’ve solved the problem of public confidence in elections for the long run.”
“If you’re against that…I’d love to hear the best arguments offered against that. I haven’t really heard that yet,” added Ramaswamy as Carlson brought up the oft-touted claim of black voters lacking access to IDs.
Similarly, last-minute endorser Joe Rogan had fellow podcaster Theo Von as a guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” where the pair spoke of the same idea.
“How about we have an election — national election holiday. We could do with one more holiday,” said the host amid jokes about doing away with Columbus Day. In response, his guest expressed, “Celebrate it, it’s a great day. People can rejoice… it would take a lot of stress off people, too.”
Warning: Language
Joe Rogan and Theo Von now agree with @VivekGRamaswamy and Donald Trump; say Election Day should be a national holiday
Theo: “They give Christopher Columbus a holiday dude. The Lieutenant Dan of the 1400’s”@joerogan @TheoVon pic.twitter.com/gzX1n2bdpS
— James Jinnette (@james_jinnette1) November 8, 2024
“It should be a paid holiday. You should expect to have to pay your employees on the day that the election comes because everybody should be able to go vote. That’s what it should be. We’ll talk to Trump about it. Make it a nationally mandated holiday,” added Rogan.
“I don’t have his number,” Von joked in part as the host assured, “We could hook it up. I know some people.”
From voter rolls to an array of mail-in ballot concerns in various states, election integrity inspired many heading to the polls through the notion of making the outcome “too big to rig.”‘
Ramaswamy touched on that idea as well when he told Carlson, “What did we say this time around? This had to be by such a decisive margin that a landslide minus some shenanigans is still going to be a decisive victory. And that’s what we got.”
“So my view is, we can — and there’s going to be such a temptation to do this — we actually won, like we actually are in a winning position right now. So like, I more or less, like, could care less for the [President] Joe Biden or [Vice President] Kamala Harris’s past. Like it just doesn’t matter.”
“That’s the spirit,” replied the commentator.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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