Tagged mail-in voting

Trump nearly in tears during speech
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Trump Claims USPS Tampered with Ballots, Even Though He Discouraged His Supporters from Voting by Mail

President Donald Trump cited the pro-Trump One America News Network (OANN), which has been known to publish conspiracy theories, while claiming that the United States Postal Service (USPS) “is responsible for tampering with hundreds of thousands of ballots.” “This long time Democrat stronghold got rid of massive numbers, especially in swing states, during and before…

House hearing on post office sabotage
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Data Appears to Show USPS Failed to Deliver Mail Ballots from Voters Nationwide

John Kruzel, a legal affairs reporter with The Hill, reports that the United States Postal Service (USPS) data appears to show that the organization failed to deliver mail ballots from voters nationwide. The column on the left “represents inbound ballots, which are ballots sent by voters to elections offices,” he said on Twitter. 🚨BREAKING: New…

Trump Press Conference Mail In Voting Meltdown
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Trump Tells GOP to “Fight Hard” After California Orders Republicans to Stop Using Illegal Ballot Collection Containers

President Donald Trump encouraged Republicans to “fight hard” after California’s attorney general and chief elections officer order GOP officials to stop using private ballot collection containers that had been marked as “official” dropboxes to collect ballots. “They have been taking advantage of the system for years!” the president alleged. Fight hard Republicans. They have been…

Trump rants at press conference about Democrats being anti-vaccine and football
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Trump Tries to Distract from NYT Tax Story by Once Again Lying About Mail-In Voting

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that “The Ballots being returned to States cannot be accurately counted” in a tweet earlier this morning, the day after the New York Times published extensive and comprehensive reporting about his tax avoidance. “The Ballots being returned to States cannot be accurately counted. Many things are already going very wrong!”…

Pelosi Election Rigging Trump
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Pelosi: Undermining Elections Makes Trump and Republicans “Enemies of the State”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the choice to undermine the 2020 general election and gutting the United States Postal Service (USPS) makes President Donald Trump and Republicans “enemies of the state.” “We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And sadly, the domestic enemies to our…

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Trump Spends Morning Lying About Mail-In Voting, Calling It a “Catastrophic Disaster”

In what critics might view as a preview of his remarks on the second night of the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lie about mail-in voting, claiming that implementing it would result in a “catastrophic disaster.” “For our Country to be sending 80 million UNSOLICITED BALLOTS is very unfair and…

Cheri Bustos
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Rep. Cheri Bustos: Trump is Trying to “Undermine Confidence” in Democracy

Representative Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) says President Donald Trump, amid repeated attacks against mail-in voting and the United States Postal Service (USPS), is “doing everything he can to undermine people’s confidence in our democracy.†“That is a sin. We’ve got the longest lasting democracy on the face of the planet,†Bustos, who is the Chairwoman of…

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Colorado Secretary of State: Trump is “Lying” About Mail-In Voting

Speaking on CNN, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said President Donald Trump “is lying about vote by mail” in an effort to discredit mail-in ballots and cast doubt on the integrity of November’s general election. “Colorado has a very clean history of running great elections with vote by mail,” Griswold said. â€We have safeguards…

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Veterans Group Mocks Trump for “Finally” Going to War––Against USPS

Progressive PAC VoteVets has released a new ad repudiating President Donald Trump for his attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS). The video features narration highlighting the military deferments Trump received when he was younger (he crafted the now-infamous “bone spurs” excuse to get out of serving in Vietnam. The narrator also points out…

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Newt Gingrich Lies About Mail-In Voting, Claims Democrats Are Trying to “Steal” November Election

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich repeated President Donald Trump’s own false claims about mail-in voting, saying that Democrats can’t win an “honest election†so they are trying “to set up an ability to steal it.” Gingrich pointed to the state of Nevada, which the president announced his administration will sue after its legislature…

Trump thinks mail in voting is only safe if the governor is a Republican
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Poll: Most Voters Are Opposed to Delaying November’s Election

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 66 percent of registered voters are opposed to delaying November’s election despite common concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump’s continued push against mail-in voting. The poll found that eight in 10 Democrats and five in 10 Republicans are opposed to postponing the election. Only 23 percent––a number Reuters…

Trump responds to Black Lives Matter by defending the Confederacy
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Trump Claims Election Would Be “Rigged” If Mail-In Ballots Were Used

President Donald Trump claimed the November election would be “rigged” if mail-in ballots were allowed. The president claimed without evidence that “MILLIONS” of mail-in ballots “WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS.” He referred to it as “THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES.” RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN…

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Study Finds Vote-by-Mail Doesn’t Benefit One Party More Than Another, Striking Down GOP Talking Point

President Donald Trump and Republicans have repeatedly disparaged vote-by-mail options in response to criticisms from voting rights advocates who’ve expressed safety concerns during the coronavirus pandemic. But a new study from Stanford University’s Democracy and Polarization Lab has found that contrary to the widely-held belief among the GOP that vote-by-mail gives Democrats an advantage over…

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