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babylonsister

(171,059 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:45 PM Jun 2020

Is there anyone on Team Trump who hasn't voted by mail?

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/there-anyone-team-trump-who-hasn-t-voted-mail-n1231856


Is there anyone on Team Trump who hasn't voted by mail?
The controversy isn't that members of Team Trump vote by mail; it's that these folks vote by mail while insisting that Americans shouldn't vote by mail.
June 23, 2020, 8:40 AM EDT
By Steve Benen


Donald Trump has convinced himself that allowing more Americans to participate in their own democracy would be detrimental to his career. And so, with that in mind, the president and his team have launched an aggressive campaign against all vote-by-mail initiatives.

Part of the problem with the campaign is that the Republican operation hasn't quite figured out what to say. Team Trump has argued that postal balloting leads to fraud, but ample evidence proves otherwise. Team Trump has also said vote-by-mail systems can be exploited by foreign governments, which is demonstrably false.

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The AP spoke to Trevor Potter, the president of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, who previously served as a general counsel on both of John McCain's Republican presidential campaigns. Referring to Trump and practically everyone around him, Potter explained, "These are people who are taking advantage of -- which is perfectly legal -- their right to vote absentee. But they don't want other people to do the same thing."

Quite right. The controversy here is not that so many members of Team Trump vote by mail; the controversy is that these folks vote by mail while insisting that Americans shouldn't be able to vote by mail.

The White House and the president's re-election campaign have had months to come up with a coherent pitch on this. They appear to be failing spectacularly.
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Is there anyone on Team Trump who hasn't voted by mail? (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2020 OP
Any who have voted legally by mail? soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
Barron ? rickford66 Jun 2020 #2

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. Any who have voted legally by mail?
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jun 2020

Not trump, he votes in FL but doesn’t have a residence there. Same with Kayleigh. Same with —- shoot I forget the others. Ivanka I think?

Pence and his wife have an old address on file.

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