Voting by mail is safe and effective, nearly entirely free from fraud, but for months President Donald Trump has been spinning lies to get Americans to go to the polls. He’s falsely claimed mail-in voting will deliver a “rigged” and “fraudulent” election, with nothing to support the claim.
Until now.
Tuesday afternoon the President urged voters in Florida – and only Florida – to vote by mail.
Trump is clearly worried about the poll numbers that show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden beating him in the Sunshine State by six points, and statistics that show Democrats are voting by mail more than Republicans.
No Republican has won the White House in 96 years without winning Florida.
Here’s how Trump is combatting this discrepancy in the critical state of Florida:
Trump’s lie about “cleaning up the state” aside (Florida has had a Republican governor since 1999), Trump just admitted that his one claim about why voting by mail is dangerous is false.
Finally, he said there is no difference between absentee voting and voting by mail.
But Trump is still insisting just Florida, and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany opened up her press conference minutes after Trump’s tweet (and one hour late) by attacking the New York City primary election, results from which have not been released after more than a month. She’s using it to illustrate the dangers of voting by mail.
USA Today opinion columnist Michael Stern notes yet another reason Trump just changed his tune: