At the same time the "campaign" of malicious mango Mussolini Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump is suing the State of Nevada over its expanded mail- in voting, that same p.o.s. is telling us that mail- in balloting in Florida is just fine:
Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida’s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail! #MAGA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2020
We wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that the governor of Florida, Ron "One Glove" DeSantis, is a die- hard Trumper who can be counted on to pull every dirty trick in the book come election day. (We expect Trump to announce any day that mail- in voting in Arizona and Georgia are also fine -- because they have reliably corrupt Republican governors willing to suppress the Democratic vote.)
This all points to the possibility that it may be dawning on the Very Stable Political Genius that he's sabotaging support from his knuckle- dragging base:
Donald Trump’s all-out war on mail voting is backfiring in battleground states.
New private polling shared first with POLITICO showed that Republicans have become overwhelmingly concerned about mail balloting, which Trump has claimed without evidence, will lead to widespread voter fraud. A potentially decisive slice of Trump’s battleground-state base — 15 percent of Trump voters in Florida, 12 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 percent in Michigan — said that getting a ballot in the mail would make them less likely to vote in November.
As the article goes on to point out, the VSPG may have already screwed the pooch in Florida:Trump won each of those states by a thin margin in 2016, and less than 1 percent of Joe Biden voters said getting a ballot mailed to them would make them less likely to vote. Overall, 53 percent of voters in Florida and about half in Michigan and Pennsylvania expressed health concerns about casting their ballots in person and prefer voting by mail in November.
Conservative campaign operatives have also worried that the president’s dismissal of the method will hurt their programs to encourage voters to take advantage of the option, allowing Democrats to build up a big lead. There’s early signs that is coming to pass: In Florida, 302,000 more Democrats have enrolled in the state’s vote-by-mail program than Republicans. (our emphasis)Of course, in Trump's "mind," he saw the electoral disaster coming and was eager to front- load a case for an illegitimate outcome, and mail- in voting "fraud" was the excuse he's been peddling up to now. Sadly for him, his words and actions are probably having the effect of suppressing the votes of his credulous voters. That's some well- deserved karma for him and his rotted out party.
