{"id":46097,"date":"2020-08-04T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46097"},"modified":"2020-08-05T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:34:57","slug":"in-desperate-reversal-trump-pleads-with-his-supporters-to-vote-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46097","title":{"rendered":"In Desperate Reversal Trump Pleads with His Supporters to ‘Vote By Mail’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several weeks Donald Trump has been ranting in his customary incoherent manner about the risks of voting by mail. He insists that it is a process that is rife with fraud, despite not having any evidence to support his alarmist raving. To the contrary, all the evidence shows that it is safe and secure<\/a><\/strong>, and has been for decades.<\/p>\n

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Every study conducted to ascertain the reliability of mail-in voting has concluded that there is no problem other than trivial numbers of incidental errors. David Lublin, an elections expert and professor at American University in Washington, D.C. told ABC News that…<\/p>\n

“Voter fraud has not been a widespread problem in the United States. It’s just not remotely a widespread problem that, in fact, usually when claims are made, the more they’re investigated the more they disappear.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even a Commission on Election Integrity<\/em> set up by Trump himself in 2017 failed to document any fraudulent voting<\/a><\/strong> and, humiliated, was disbanded a few months later.<\/p>\n

So it is with particular curiosity, although not remotely surprising given his penchant for hypocrisy and lies, that Trump has reversed himself completely and is now embracing mail-in voting, but only because it is now in his interest to do so<\/p>\n

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Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida\u2019s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail! #MAGA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n