Trump votes by mail in Florida election for second time this year
Trump’s ballot was returned days before the primary as he presses Congress to limit mail voting to voters with specific exemptions.
- President Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with Palm Beach County records showing he requested the ballot in late July and returned it on August 13.
- Trump has repeatedly attacked mail-in voting as "inherently corrupt" and a "scam," demanding "no more crooked mail-in ballots" in his February State of the Union address while his administration spent months restricting the practice.
- White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales defended the decision, citing exceptions for travel in Trump's proposed restrictions. Trump previously voted by mail in a Florida special election in March while publicly calling the process "cheating" at a Tennessee event.
- Santiago Mayer, executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, told Newsweek on Monday that Trump is a "hypocrite at the highest level," stating the President "whines about mail-in voting day after day, only to turn around and vote by mail himself."
- Trump is currently pressing the Supreme Court for emergency permission to implement sweeping mail-in ballot restrictions before November midterms. More than 50 former judges and election officials warned these efforts, including the proposed SAVE America Act, could create "chaos.
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Donald Trump voted by mail for the Florida Republican Elementary, which is being held on Tuesday.
Trump votes by mail after calling ballots 'inherently corrupt'
Palm Beach County voting records cited by US media show Trump requested a ballot in late July and returned it last week for the contests in his adopted home state. The post Trump votes by mail after calling ballots ‘inherently corrupt’ appeared first on Vanguard News.
White House defends Trump’s ability to vote by mail | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> The White House today defended President Donald Trump’s decision to vote by mail, following reports that he cast an absentee ballot in Florida’s Republican primary despite repeatedly criticizing mail-in voting as “cheating.”
The White House defended the right of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to vote by post after the American website "Political" revealed that he used the vote by mail, of which he is critical, in Republican primaries. The U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to authorize the entry into force of a decree that makes it difficult to vote by post in the country. The request takes place months before the midterm elec…
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