vote by mail in Florida despite his crusade for a decade against this electoral “fraud”

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, absentee ballot before the special elections being held this Tuesday in Floridadespite leading a political crusade against this form of voting since he ran for president for the first time in the 2016 elections and especially after his defeat against Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.

The Republican assured this Monday in Memphis that “Vote by mail is synonymous with electoral fraud by mail” and added “I call it mail-in voter fraud, and we have to do something about it.”

Despite these statements, Trump He mailed his ballot earlier this month from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach County, according to records on the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website, as published by the American media The Hill.

The Florida vote was aimed choose between Democrat Emily Gregory and Republican Jon Maples for the seat in the House of Representatives vacated by Republican Mike Caruso.

White House spokeswoman Olivia Whales told The Hill what the fact that Trump voted by mail was irrelevantbecause “everyone knows” that he is participating in the Florida elections.

However, the president has shown a belligerent public attitude against this voting method and intensified it in 2020, when more Americans voted by mail due to the covid pandemic.

Trump aattributed part of his defeat that same year to voting by mail, which he usually described as “fraudulent”.

This voting system is, before the mid-term elections next November, object of political discussion.

The Senate has been debating for a week the American Voter Eligibility Protection Act (SAVE America Act) that would require Americans to present proof of citizenship to register to vote and which has become a political priority for Trump.

Democrats oppose this legislative change which, they maintain, would aim to leave large social groups without access to the polls, so it has little chance of succeeding.