'It’s a disgrace': This Trump appointee is causing major anxiety in the presidential race

After Joe Biden was sworn in as president in January 2021, critics of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy were hoping that the Donald Trump appointee would be fired. But that hasn't happened.

DeJoy still holds that position. And The New Republic's Hafiz Rashid reports that in 2024, DeJoy is once again drawing criticism for slowing down the mail during a presidential election year.

Rashid explains, "The presidential election is less than two months away, and just like in 2020, the postal system may play a pivotal role in determining the outcome…. State and local officials from more than 20 states, on Wednesday, (September 18) warned that mail delays could result in many votes failing to reach election offices in time to be counted, and urged swift action. In a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the officials said that mail sent to voters is being marked as undeliverable at above-normal rates."

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been sounding the alarm about mail delivery and the 2024 election.

The GOP official told NBC News, "It's a disgrace. They need to understand the importance (of election mail), and they need to make no more excuses."

Rashid reports that Georgia "has the worst mail delivery rate in the United States, with only 66 percent of local first-class letters since July being delivered within two days."

"DeJoy has faced criticism and calls to step down since 2020, after he instituted so-called reforms that he claimed were meant to modernize the postal system but ended up slowing down mail delivery," the New Republic reporter notes. "Critics believe DeJoy is deliberately undermining the Postal Service to push a privatization agenda and have been urging Biden to fire him for years. This would be difficult to do, but it is not, as some claim, impossible. In any case, DeJoy's lack of action has led to mail remaining slower than ever and even getting worse."

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Read The New Republic's full article at this link.