3 weeks ago
5
WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said Monday mail-in ballots are “corrupt,” hours aft pledging to motion an enforcement bid to destruct them and “seriously controversial” voting machines up of the 2026 midterm elections.
“You tin ne'er person a existent ideology with mail-in ballots,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “And we, arsenic the Republican Party, are going to bash everything imaginable to get escaped of mail-in ballots. We’re going to commencement with an enforcement bid that’s being written close present by the champion lawyers successful the state to extremity mail-in ballots due to the fact that they’re corrupt.”
Trump has for years pushed unproven claims astir wide elector fraud involving mail-in ballots. He repeatedly described his 2020 predetermination decision arsenic “rigged,” pointing to expanded mail-in balloting that was allowed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly a 3rd of ballots formed successful the 2024 predetermination were submitted by mail, according to a U.S. Election Assistance Commission study released successful June. While mail-in ballots didn’t deed the grounds 43% level seen during the tallness of the pandemic, they accounted for 30.3% of each ballots formed successful the election, good supra pre-pandemic levels.
