Trump urges supporters to vote by mail despite fraud claims
Trump now tells supporters to use early or mail ballots after years of attacking the practice and pushing restrictions that courts blocked.
- On Saturday, President Donald Trump released a video urging Republicans to vote early and by mail in the midterm elections, reversing his long-standing criticism of these voting methods.
- For years, Trump described mail-in voting as a "Nation Destroying SCAM" and "inherently corrupt," while simultaneously using the method himself and unsuccessfully pushing the SAVE America Act to restrict it.
- The president declared, "Republicans must WIN the 2026 Midterm Elections, and we must use every appropriate tool," while promoting the "Swamp The Vote USA" initiative to mobilize supporters.
- This strategy shift aims to help Republicans overcome a challenging political environment, as Democrats have built momentum in competitive races less than five weeks before the November 3 election.
- With over one million ballots already cast, the Republican Party is mobilizing voters early, a shift following legal setbacks that previously blocked attempts to restrict mail-in voting.
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In an abrupt about-face, Trump suddenly tells Republicans to vote by mail
President Donald Trump wants to sharply curtail mail ballots. He’s called them “inherently corrupt” and baselessly condemned them as a major source of fraud.
Trump drops longtime aversion to mail-in voting with GOP trailing in polls
The about-face by the president is familiar. Trump encouraged his voters to cast their ballots by mail in 2024 and has repeatedly voted by mail himself, despite a long record of attacking the practice.
Trump Just Urged MAGA To 'Vote By Mail' To Help Out Republicans In New Video—And The Hypocrisy Is Off The Charts
President Donald Trump's hypocrisy is off the charts after he urged MAGA voters in a video on Saturday to vote by mail to help Republicans win the midterm elections despite years of claiming mail-in ballots are used by Democrats to rig elections.Republicans have railed against early voting and vote-by-mail procedures in recent years, spurred by Trump's lies that they helped Democrats "steal" the 2020 election.Research shows early voting greatly …
Trump's long-standing attack on postal votes may have caused some Republican voters to abstain from voting altogether, assesses DR's USA correspondent Kim Bildsøe Lassen.
Trump sows doubt about mail-in voting while encouraging it, as midterms approach
U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up an appearance at a campaign rally on the Nebraska State Fairgrounds on Oct. 5, 2026, in Grand Island, Nebraska. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) President Donald Trump continued on Monday to sow unfounded
Why Did Trump Tell Voters Vote By Mail?
A reporter’s question on the South Lawn ended with President Donald Trump pointing at her and walking off. The clip, posted by independent journalist Aaron Rupart on X, shows Trump in a dark suit and bright blue tie, with the South Portico’s curved staircase and columns behind him. She asked why he was telling supporters to use mail ballots if he believes that method is fraudulent. “Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you thin…
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