Right up until
August 3 -- Monday -- President Trump hadn't yet realized that his shots
at mail-in voting are hitting him in the foot.
It's easy to see where his convictions came from. With Democrats advocating loudly for mail-in voting, Trump may have believed that mail-ins benefit Democrats more than Republicans.
Sure, mail-ins make voting
easier for a lot of people. Sure, it would help voters who fear getting
COVID-19 when they go in person to the polls. But in Trump's paranoid
mind, if Democrats want mail-in ballots, it means that mail-ins are
better for Democrats than for him.
Trump has insisted that mail-in votes will create election fraud. Statistically, it seems, most mail-in voters are Democrats. Mark Stern of Slate.com posits that Trump could stop counting mail-in ballots that come in after Election Day, which would theoretically disenfranchise more Democrats than Republicans.
Bear in mind that Trump recently appointed an avid supporter to run the Postal Service. The new appointee has deliberately slowed down the postal system. Among other measures, he is restricting the hours that postal workers can use sorting machines.
Till Monday, Trump apparently hadn't realized that mail-in ballots also make voting easier for the elderly, and a ton of elderly voters are Republicans. Nor had he realized that his fraudulent accusations of fraud have scared the Republican elderly away from voting by mail.
As a result, many would rather not vote at all, according to a Politico article published Monday. The article says that "15 percent of Trump voters in Florida, 12 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 percent in Michigan — said that getting a ballot in the mail would make them less likely to vote in November."
Sometime Monday, reality dawned on the President. Trump realized that he'd have to reassure his Florida mail-in voters that their ballots would be counted fair and square. Either that, or the GOP's yammerings finally got through.
Tuesday, Trump was down in the Python State telling his acolytes that Florida's ballots would be fine because Florida's voting system, uniquely, hadn't been tainted by meddling Democrats. How he'll approach his voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan is unknown.
"Vote!" by Robert Stinnett is licensed under CC BY 2.0
It's easy to see where his convictions came from. With Democrats advocating loudly for mail-in voting, Trump may have believed that mail-ins benefit Democrats more than Republicans.
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| Elderly voters favor mail-in voting. So do Americans worried about catching COVID-19. |
Trump has insisted that mail-in votes will create election fraud. Statistically, it seems, most mail-in voters are Democrats. Mark Stern of Slate.com posits that Trump could stop counting mail-in ballots that come in after Election Day, which would theoretically disenfranchise more Democrats than Republicans.
Bear in mind that Trump recently appointed an avid supporter to run the Postal Service. The new appointee has deliberately slowed down the postal system. Among other measures, he is restricting the hours that postal workers can use sorting machines.
Till Monday, Trump apparently hadn't realized that mail-in ballots also make voting easier for the elderly, and a ton of elderly voters are Republicans. Nor had he realized that his fraudulent accusations of fraud have scared the Republican elderly away from voting by mail.
As a result, many would rather not vote at all, according to a Politico article published Monday. The article says that "15 percent of Trump voters in Florida, 12 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 percent in Michigan — said that getting a ballot in the mail would make them less likely to vote in November."
Sometime Monday, reality dawned on the President. Trump realized that he'd have to reassure his Florida mail-in voters that their ballots would be counted fair and square. Either that, or the GOP's yammerings finally got through.
Tuesday, Trump was down in the Python State telling his acolytes that Florida's ballots would be fine because Florida's voting system, uniquely, hadn't been tainted by meddling Democrats. How he'll approach his voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan is unknown.
"Vote!" by Robert Stinnett is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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