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On the first day of the Republican convention, on a day when Donald Trump should be touting the [difficult to identify] things that his administration has accomplished for the American people during the past 3½ years of his stewardship, or articulating his presidential vision for the next four years (the GOP has no official 2020 policy platform / apparently policy is anything Trump feels it is on any particular day), what does Trump talk about? None of the above. Trump again stated something he declared last week.....
"The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is 'rigged'" — Donald Trump on 17 August 2020.
Let's think about that. It is an accusation no other US president has ever uttered. I can't remember any national, state, county, city, or local candidate saying such a thing. Ever. Why is Donald Trump leveling such a flammable charge? Well, Donnie doesn't like mail-in voting. Don't get me wrong, he likes it just fine for himself, and for Melania, and for members of his family and his administration. He even like it for a perennially red state like Florida where the senior retirees typically vote Republican (although I can't even begin to understand why). In Trumps viewpoint, mail-in voting is fine for everyone that votes for Trump. But for no one else. Trump has this notion, one of his infamous 'gut feelings', that the more ballots that are cast by mail, the worse it is for the Republican party. He doesn't have any evidence to back up this assertion, because the evidence states that there is actually a Democrat/Republican balance when it comes to mail-in voting. Just a few days ago the Republican Secretary of State for Washington state, which votes exclusively by mail, says there are no problems at all and voter-fraud is minuscule. Indeed, that is another wild Trump complaint, fraud will be rampant! But the evidence says otherwise.....
Explainer: Fraud is rare in U.S. mail-in voting. Here are the methods that prevent it
The Data Proves Mail-In Voting Is Safe From Fraud & COVID-19
Low rates of fraud in vote-by-mail states show the benefits outweigh the risks
Does Mail-In Voting Increase Voter Fraud? We Did the Math. The Answer Is No.
Just to be on the safe side, in late May Trump appointed a major campaign donor ($2.5 million) to be his new Postmaster General. What Louis DeJoy neglected to mention to Congress is that he planned to ruin the Post Office from within. Well, "improve efficiency" by removing/destroying automatic sorting machines, mailboxes, ending all overtime, and initiating scheduling rules that guarantee chaos. All of this mind you in the midst of a deadly pandemic and just a few months before Election Day and, you guessed it, tons of mail-in voting because of the pandemic. The intent of DeJoy (and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen who searched for someone like DeJoy) is to make a total mess of mail-in voting and delay Election Day results. This is a way for Trump to claim the system is rigged against him. Intentionally ruin the system, and then whine about the intentional mess when there is a backlog of votes.
"The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is 'rigged'" — Donald Trump on 17 August 2020.
Let's think about that. It is an accusation no other US president has ever uttered. I can't remember any national, state, county, city, or local candidate saying such a thing. Ever. Why is Donald Trump leveling such a flammable charge? Well, Donnie doesn't like mail-in voting. Don't get me wrong, he likes it just fine for himself, and for Melania, and for members of his family and his administration. He even like it for a perennially red state like Florida where the senior retirees typically vote Republican (although I can't even begin to understand why). In Trumps viewpoint, mail-in voting is fine for everyone that votes for Trump. But for no one else. Trump has this notion, one of his infamous 'gut feelings', that the more ballots that are cast by mail, the worse it is for the Republican party. He doesn't have any evidence to back up this assertion, because the evidence states that there is actually a Democrat/Republican balance when it comes to mail-in voting. Just a few days ago the Republican Secretary of State for Washington state, which votes exclusively by mail, says there are no problems at all and voter-fraud is minuscule. Indeed, that is another wild Trump complaint, fraud will be rampant! But the evidence says otherwise.....
Explainer: Fraud is rare in U.S. mail-in voting. Here are the methods that prevent it
The Data Proves Mail-In Voting Is Safe From Fraud & COVID-19
Low rates of fraud in vote-by-mail states show the benefits outweigh the risks
Does Mail-In Voting Increase Voter Fraud? We Did the Math. The Answer Is No.
Just to be on the safe side, in late May Trump appointed a major campaign donor ($2.5 million) to be his new Postmaster General. What Louis DeJoy neglected to mention to Congress is that he planned to ruin the Post Office from within. Well, "improve efficiency" by removing/destroying automatic sorting machines, mailboxes, ending all overtime, and initiating scheduling rules that guarantee chaos. All of this mind you in the midst of a deadly pandemic and just a few months before Election Day and, you guessed it, tons of mail-in voting because of the pandemic. The intent of DeJoy (and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen who searched for someone like DeJoy) is to make a total mess of mail-in voting and delay Election Day results. This is a way for Trump to claim the system is rigged against him. Intentionally ruin the system, and then whine about the intentional mess when there is a backlog of votes.
