WASHINGTON — A push from President Donald Trump to eradicate mail voting appears to fly in the face of last year’s efforts by Republicans to embrace all voting options in the critical Keystone State.

The “movement” to bar mail-in ballots and voting machines, as Trump called it Monday, establishes yet another front in an ongoing battle over presidential power, with Gov. Josh Shapiro among the many state leaders and legal advocates across the country laboring to blunt Trump’s expansive efforts to reshape government and American politics.

In August of 2024, the Republican National Committee launched an effort to boost its ground game in Pennsylvania and to help level a playing field dominated by Democrats for years: mail voting.

Michael Whatley, the RNC chairman, said at the time that, “

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