Trump Risks Scaring Off GOP Voters as He Bashes Mail-In Ballots
- Primaries showed Democrats embracing absentee ballots
- Trump’s claims of fraud could deter Republicans from voting
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly said vote-by-mail could cost him re-election. Some Republican strategists think he’s right, but more because the president’s words risk scaring away his own voters than because of fraud.
Trump argues, without citing evidence, that mail-in balloting is open to manipulation, vulnerable to foreign forgeries and beneficial to rival Joe Biden. On Monday, Trump tweeted, without evidence, that “millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries” and that the election will be “rigged” against him if voting by mail persists.