Trump's message is a problem for the GOP.
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Republicans in battleground states like Florida are aggressively pushing absentee voting, trying to clean up President Donald Trump’s inaccurate comments claiming that the practice is unreliable and corrupt.
Trump has frequently insisted that with so many people voting by mail because of the coronavirus crisis, the election results may not be legitimate.
Not surprisingly, since Trump ramped up his tirade against voting by mail this summer, polls have started to show that Republicans are less likely to vote by mail than Democrats.
In Pennsylvania, when local Republican leaders tried to encourage mail-in voting, they received intense pushback from Trump supporters. That shift is a problem for the GOP during a time when people may be reluctant to vote in person because of the coronavirus pandemic. And it’s been a particular headache in places like Florida, where the Republican Party has traditionally had a strong vote-by-mail program and uses it to turn out its supporters. |
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| WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING | Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court rejected Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins’s appeal to appear on the presidential ballot, allowing election officials to carry on without having to reprint ballots. | |
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Donald Trump attempted to defend his decision to hold an indoor campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Sunday by blaming Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) and ignoring the possibility that he’s risking Americans’ health. | |
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Weeks before Portsmouth, Virginia, Police Chief Angela Greene allowed one of her sergeants to bring unusual felony charges against state Sen. Louise Lucas (D) in connection with the destruction of a Confederate monument, Greene praised the sergeant for a letter he sent to city officials that blasted the state senator for calling for Greene’s dismissal. | |
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