Trump pushes early and mail-in voting initiative ahead of November despite casting doubt on voting methods for years
Trump pushes early and mail-in voting initiative ahead of November despite casting doubt on voting methods for years
The Trump campaign on Tuesday announced a new program aimed at promoting absentee, mail-in and early in-person voting – practices that former President Donald Trump has disparaged for years while promoting false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
It's more opportunity to declare fraud. Biden postal service (crippled by Trump) not delivering votes in conservative counties, etc.
I figured it was an attempt to get votes in before he's declared ineligible. So when he's ousted, he'll say "I got all these votes, count em! I should win but they're cheating and saying I can't run! FRAUD!"
Trump isn't going to be declared ineligible. He meets the constitutional requirements for being President. Unfortunately. We are just going to have to win the election by giving Biden more votes. And they're going to declare fraud whether he loses by 1 vote or 10 million, so let's try to just absolutely destroy them at the ballot. We can't just beat him, we have to send a message that Trump and his sycophants will never have a path to election again.
Lmao don't you understand by now, there is no scenario where the GOP and its Almighty Head Cancerous Tumor do not scream fraud
(crippled by Trump)
If you mean the USPS scaling down, that's kinda had to happen. People send way less mail than they used to. Electronic communication has displaced a bunch of postal mail.
I just bought a sheet of forever stamps this week, and the roll they were replacing was IIRC 34 cent stamps. That's how long it was taking me to get through a roll.
goes looking for when I would have bought them
https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/domestic-letter-rates-since-1863.htm
Yeah, those haven't been current in 22 years.
goes looking for mail volume numbers
https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/first-class-mail-since-1926.htm
The USPS peaked in volume back in 2001. In that year, they transported 103,656 million pieces of mail.
Last year, they did 45,979 million pieces.
It can be characterized that way, but the person who did the gutting was a Trump appointee and he seems to have done it in a deliberately ham-fisted way. Should the postal service struggle with ballots anywhere in the country that will be taken as a sign of fraud, but the reality is they did a poor job of making changes whether they were necessary or not.
Edit: downvotes aren't from me. Yours is a perspective I can't refute, but what I have read says the post office would be perfectly fine if their budget stopped being raided.
Your post shows how little you understand the USPS.
A) It wasn't the scaling down of the USPS that is what Trump did. He appointed the head of the org, Louis DeJoy, who did a lot of specific acts that slowed down how mail was delivered. He got rid of over 700 high-speed auto-sort machines that were perfectly fine but out of date and then didn't order new ones. He cut overtime and lowered the opening hours of offices.
B) The only reason the USPS is having financial issues is because the Republicans passed a law (which many Dems also voted for because they are morons and the plan sounded good at first read) that said all pensions had to be pre-funded through death. That means for every person who works there and has a pension, let's say being paid $500/mo for the rest of their life, will require the USPS to have a fully funded account in the amount of $500/mo x 12 mo x life expectancy. They can't do like every other company on Earth with a pension and fund it over time either through profits or by an interest bearing account. That crippled the USPS because they had to divert all their profits. Before that they were profitable, but this stifled all growth.
C) Even with that, they finally came back and made $56 billion in PROFIT in 2022. Yes, in 2023 they had a loss of $6 billion, but the profit from 2022 helped them to not scale back.
D) USPS doesn't make most of their money on first class mail. The majority of their income is from package delivery ($32.4 billion) and from mailing advertisements ($15.9 billion) vs first class mail revenue of $24.5 billion.
hes got a reason. this guy doesnt flip on things like this unless its to his benefit
something tells me some of his polls arent going as well as expected
This one was always him shooting himself in the foot. He needs to attack mail-in because it's the best line he has for pushing his fraud narrative.
But who uses the most mail-in? The elderly.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/who-votes-mail
I'm with you on this.
I also expect Putin to not miss any opportunity to destabilize the US. This seems like another vector and he can do it with any kind of votes.
lets see if my father in law changes his opinion on mail in voting now, conveniently
Nope. It was unsafe and full of fraud then. But republicans have made it safe now. See? You can't win.
Nonono, you see, it was always safe to do, it's the best, really. But when those crooked blue districts do it, that's when you run into FAKE results. Those blue districts don't send their best. /s
They now want to completely shut down in person voting as they have already done in large metro areas. Election interference as much as possible! It’s the Republican way.
Trump is ONLY doing this because Mail in Voting is RIPE with DEMOCRAT FRAUD and the ONLY way to Win is to Fight Fraud with Fraud! And also THE ELECTION IS RIGGED but ONLY by Democrats even though we're trying to fight Fraud with our OWN Fraud!
Oh NOEZ! Now the election will be full of 2000 Mules-style fraud and there's no way to trust the results! Blah blah, sob sob, something or other stolen eRection. Wait… is that why Trump is so angry? Does his dick not work? I'm not claiming to know for sure, but I definitely think so.
Give me back my erection, sleep joe brandon!
So what? Y'all been saying it's just fine for years!
Huh, weird. Conservatives used to blow a fuse when people would "flip flop". But I guess it's fine when lord trump does it.
We aren't upset he is embracing mail-in voting, you dumbass. We are laughing at how he has flipped on an issue he was so adamant about.
We have been saying it's fine for years, and we are still saying it is fine. Trump is the one who was saying how rigged and awful and terrible mail-in voting was (except for in the states that voted for him and had mail-in voting).
You people really have trouble with reading comprehension. It's fascinating
That retort is a bit lame. Try again.