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LetMyPeopleVote

(182,102 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:06 PM Aug 2025

White House changes course after Trump vows executive order to 'end' mail-in voting

trump may be backing off on abolishing vote by mail

https://rollcall.com/2025/08/20/white-house-changes-course-after-trump-vows-executive-order-to-end-mail-in-voting/

ANALYSIS — The White House has abruptly altered course on President Donald Trump’s vow to have an elite legal team craft an executive order that would end mail-in voting, with a top aide saying the administration would instead forge a legislative path.....

But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday, just over 24 hours later, signaled that the administration had ditched the president’s approach.

“The White House continues to work on this, and when Congress comes back to Washington I’m sure there will be many discussions with our friends on Capitol Hill, and also our friends in state legislatures across the country, to ensure that we’re protecting the integrity of the vote for the American people,” she said. “And I think Republicans generally and the president generally wants to make it easier for Americans to vote and harder for people to cheat in our elections.”

Asked what changed so quickly, and whether Trump had received a legal ruling from within the administration that his office lacked the authority to make such a dramatic election change, a White House spokesman merely lobbed accusations at Democrats and repeated Trump’s 2024 campaign platform on the issue.

I would like to hear this from trump. No matter what trump will be changing his minds on this issue


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White House changes course after Trump vows executive order to 'end' mail-in voting (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 OP
🌮 underpants Aug 2025 #1
I think a lot of the whiplash reaction to his comments have settled down..just wait a day and he'll change his mind Deuxcents Aug 2025 #2

Deuxcents

(27,715 posts)
2. I think a lot of the whiplash reaction to his comments have settled down..just wait a day and he'll change his mind
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:11 PM
Aug 2025

Another kind of distraction will be dreamed up

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