Trump calls voting by mail ‘cheating’ just days after voting by mail | Donald Trump
Donald Trump called voting by mail “cheating” at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, just days after voting by mail in person.
“Voting by mail means mail fraud. I call it mail fraud, and we have to do something about it,” the president said Monday at a roundtable on his administration’s crime task force.
Records show Trump voted by mail in the special election for the 87th District district, which includes the Mar-a-Lago golf club. accordingly Palm Beach county elections supervisor website. Trump endorsed Republican candidate Jon Maples in the race against Democrat Emily Gregory.
Trump opted to send his ballot by mail, even though he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting is available until sunday evening.
In recent months, Trump has renewed baseless claims that the practice is subject to widespread fraud as he pressures Senate Republicans to pass a restrictive voting bill and other measures that would require proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters. The president is also pushing for changes to the legislation, specifically to ban mail-in ballots with limited exceptions.
Trump has spoken out against voting by mail on social media, calling it “fraud” and vowing to undermine the process. In his State of the Union address last month, he demanded “no more fake mail-in ballots.”
Many election experts say the president’s years-long attacks on mail-in voting have weakened overall confidence in the democratic process, and local officials have implemented extensive checks and balances to reduce much of the fraud.
In a statement, White House press secretary Olivia Wales called Trump’s decision to vote by mail “a nonsense.”
“As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act includes common sense exceptions for Americans to vote by mail for illness, disability, military or travel, but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it is highly susceptible to fraud,” Wales added.
“As everyone knows, the President resides in Palm Beach and is participating in the Florida election, but it is also clear that he lives primarily at the White House in Washington, D.C.”
This isn’t the first time Trump has voted by mail in recent years. During the 2020 presidential primaries mailed the ballot Even though they declared — without evidence — that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election through mail-in ballots.
