Trump Is Desperate And Now Supporting Mail-In Voting
After telling Republicans for years not to vote by mail, Trump has changed his mind and now supports mail-in voting.
After telling Republicans for years not to vote by mail, Trump has changed his mind and now supports mail-in voting.
The Republican attacks on voting are a year-round effort, which is why it is important that a court in Arizona rejected a GOP challenge to the state’s no excuse mail-in voting.
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…
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…
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…
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!”…
The stories we tell ourselves, especially the ones we tend to repeat over and over and that circulate throughout our political and cultural discourses, matter. They impact us. They carve neural pathways, so to speak, in our collective cultural mindset, in our political nervous system. They set expectations for us about the future, map out…
Trump proclaimed that mail-in voting is a scam and that the vote count is going to corrupt and against him during a press conference meltdown.
Donald Trump knew who William Barr was before he appointed him to be his Attorney General. Writing an op-ed in the Washington Post, Barr clearly signaled to Trump that he was more than willing to do his dirty work. Since then, Barr has repeatedly acted in the President’s best interest and has made not attempt…
Despite criticism from politicians after giving an interview in North Carolina and urging people in the state to vote twice, President Donald Trump continued to suggest his supporters should commit election fraud in three new tweets earlier this morning. The president began his messages with another attack on mail-in voting, suggesting the process results in…
Attorney General William Barr falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraud during a sometimes contentious interview on CNN.
Trump asked a federal court to require the state not to count any ballots that were not sent in using the USPS.
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…
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…
Trump is suing three Democratic strongholds in Iowa as part of his effort to get absentee ballot requests by voters invalidated.
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…
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…
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…
Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign slammed President Donald Trump, accusing him of “sabotaging” the United States Postal Service following remarks Trump made in which he appeared to admit as much. “The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural…
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…
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’s attacks on mail-in voting are working on his own party. A GOP pollster found Republicans only getting 15% of the mail-in vote in a swing state.
Lara Trump recorded a robocall this year encouraging people to use mail-in ballots. The President’s daughter-in-law said voting by mail was safe and secure. Trump recorded the call in support of Republican Mike Garcia, who was running a special election earlier in 2020. He was eventually elected to replace Democrat Katie Hill, who had resigned….
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…
Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 1 million approved mail-in ballots as Trump’s attack on voting by mail has backfired in Pennsylvania.
Defending Democracy Together will be running an ad in Michigan encouraging mail-in voting as part of a safe voting options campaign.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson destroyed Trump’s lies about the state’s distribution of absentee ballot applications.
Trump is melting down as states like Michigan and Nevada have announced plans to increase mail-in voting for the presidential election in November.
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…
Critical states like Michigan and Pennsylvania have already expanded their vote by mail efforts, which means that Trump’s battle to keep people from voting is already lost.