President Donald Trump voted in Tuesday’s state House special election by mail even as he urged on Monday that “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”
“You know, brought to my attention today that we’re the only country that does mail-in voting,” Trump stated at a roundtable on crime in Memphis. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all.”
According to Palm Beach County data, Trump voted in the special election for House District 87, which incorporates his Mar-a-Lago residence, by mail earlier this month. Trump additionally voted by mail in the first for the election in January.
Trump has repeatedly questioned the veracity voting by mail, claiming with out proof that it’s a vital supply of election fraud. He has made the elimination of no-excuse mail voting a high precedence by means of the “SAVE America Act”, a federal elections overhaul invoice dealing with slim odds of passage in the Senate. The Supreme Court additionally heard arguments Monday in a case introduced by Republicans that seeks to tighten deadlines for mail ballots.
“As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, DC,” stated Olivia Wales, a spokesperson for the White House, in a assertion. “This is a non-story.”
Trump proposes permitting mail-in voting with excuses, together with “ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL,” as he laid out in a Truth Social post earlier this month in regards to the SAVE America Act. Trump will not be anticipated to be in Florida on Election Day on Tuesday.
It’s not the primary time the president has voted by mail, casting a mail ballot most lately in the Florida presidential main in 2020 whereas making an attempt to differentiate his vote as an “absentee” vote.
“Absentee ballots are good, universal mail-ins when you get inundated with these things are bad and will lead to terrible things, including voter fraud, etcetera,” Trump stated on the time.
The president voted early in-person in the presidential main and in individual in the overall election at a polling location close to Mar-a-Lago in 2024.