In June, President Trump sat in the Oval Office for one of his periodic interviews-turned-airing-of-grievances. When the conversation turned to the 2020 election, Trump singled out what he called the “biggest risk” to his bid for a second term. It was not the mounting death toll from COVID-19, or further economic damage inflicted by the pandemic, or anything else a reality-dwelling president might fret about.
“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told the Politico reporter he’d invited. He was referring to the series of lawsuits filed by his campaign and the Republican National Committee that fight the expansion of mail-in voting and seek to limit access to the ballot box in November. “We have many lawsuits going all over,” he said. “And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”
Going into 2020, Trump had the political winds at his back with a strong economy, roaring stock market, and historically low unemployment. Then came COVID-19. As of this writing, more […]
This article shocks me – they don’t even try to hide their desire to manipulate the polls, and no doubt the taxpayers are also paying for all of this effort to eliminate what wouldm help protect people during covid19. Talk about an administration that doesn’t give a damn for the common good. The fact is that a mail in ballot system is one of the best ways to,prevent manipulation of the electronic polls, becausem theyn arenot electronic.. It is astonishing to me that Trump and the Republican party are putting so much effort into trying to eliminate mail in ballots -m no doubt because mail in ballots cannot be interferred with by Russian computer hacks.
I agree with you Lauren; there is no better way for the prevention of the spreading of the Corona virus than mail-in ballots, and the Trumpers do not care how many people they kill to win the election by whatever fraudulent means they can come up with.