Trump casts a mail-in ballot in Florida special election
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Trump Votes by Mail After Calling It 'Cheating'
Is Trump's mail-in vote a glaring act of hypocrisy or a justified use of a secure absentee system?
Above: The USPS Election Mail logo is displayed as ballots sit in a tray inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Nov. 5, 2024. Image credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
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Anti-Trump narrative
Trump called mail-in voting "cheating" and is pushing the Save America Act to restrict it nationwide — then turned around and voted by mail in a Florida special election when in-person early voting was available. That's not a technicality, that's a glaring double standard. Mail-in ballots are essential to defending U.S. democracy, as they are so relied upon by voters from marginalized groups.
Pro-Trump narrative
Requesting an absentee ballot with verification, a signature and tracking is nothing like the mass unsolicited mail-in chaos pushed during 2020 — those are two completely different systems. Trump is based in D.C. on presidential duty and used Florida's secure, excuse-based process, which is exactly the kind of safeguarded exception the Save America Act preserves. Calling that hypocrisy ignores the actual policy distinction being made.
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