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He even voted by mail himself and ran a messaging campaign to encourage his supporters. do the sameDonald Trump has repeatedly threatened Eliminate mail-in voting completely, Baseless doubts are being raised on the validity of mail-in votes.
Now he seems to be calling for an end to all forms of early voting.
later in public demand for prosecution Among his political foes, Trump encouraged the Justice Department to “vigorously” investigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election – and hinted that “the biggest scandal in American history” will “happen again” unless the government Eliminates early voting.
“Look what happened to our country when a crooked idiot became our ‘President’!” He wrote on Truth Social. “Now we know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much ‘zeal’ as the biggest scam in American history! If not, it will again, including the upcoming midterms. No mail-in or ‘early’ voting, yes to voter ID!”
President, who withdrew from the NBA gambling scandal To California’s redistricting effortsHe gave a glimpse of how his administration is planning for midterm elections in 2026 The balance of power in Congress – and the future of his administration – is at stake:Votes for Democratic candidates and the measures they support that are not cast on Election Day are illegitimate.
Trump said, “Look how dishonest California Prop Vote is! Millions of ballots are being ‘shipped.’ “GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!”
When asked to clarify the President’s comments and whether he intended to ban early voting in any way, the White House directed Independent What did he say in his post?
for more than a decadeTrump has lied about “rigged” election results and raised questions about how elections are run by making unproven allegations of widespread voter fraud. His false, ongoing narrative that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” not only fueled the conspiracy theories that fueled the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but is the foundation for legislative and legal threats to the validity of any election results.
Trump called for “same day voting” over “paper ballots”, while his campaign promoted early voting in 2024. In August, he threatened to sign an executive order to “get rid” of mail-in ballots.
Even as he demands that all elections be held over the course of one day and in person, Trump has bragged about setting early voting “records” and urged Republicans to vote early at virtual rallies for GOP candidates.
Now he’s trying to link mail-in ballots and early voting as evidence — without any evidence — that Democrats are “cheating in the elections.”
Nearly 70 percent of the votes cast for president in 2020 were cast by mail or in person during the early voting period. In 2024, as expanded access to mail-in ballots became easier following the COVID-19 pandemic, the figure was 60 percent — still the majority of all votes cast.
Under Trump’s terms, those ballots from millions of voters are “dishonored.”
According to election lawyer Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, “Donald Trump is never moving on from the 2020 election. And now, he’s planning revenge in 2026.”
Nearly every state has an early, in-person voting period, and many states have nearly all-mail elections.
Trump’s post appears to be telling California voters not to vote by mail or early — exactly the opposite message Republican officials in the state are sending to their supporters.
By law, California mails ballots to every registered voter in the state, which Trump calls “mailed-in” ballots that steal the election.
“The stupidity of an old man who knows he’s going to lose,” Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on Twitter.
More than 4 million mail-in ballots — more than 18 percent of the ballots mailed to the state’s 23 million voters — had already been returned as of last week.
Ballots from registered Democratic voters outnumbered Republican ballots by 51 percent to 28 percent, a turnout that appears to have frustrated GOP officials.
“It’s simple. Republicans need to stop complaining and vote. We ask and ask and ask and yet turnout is still low,” the San Diego GOP wrote on Twitter. “This one is going to require better than average turnout for the GOP to win. It’s very possible but it just won’t happen. Work on it.”
Trump’s threats also follow a record-setting first weekend of early voting in New York City, where more than 164,000 voters have already turned out to vote in the mayor’s race.
That figure is five times higher than the first weekend of early voting four years ago, when voters elected Eric Adams, and nearly three times higher than the first weekend of June primary voting.
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani — whom Trump has threatened to arrest and deport if elected — is the frontrunner, competing against disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Trump has baselessly labeled Mamdani a “communist” and suggested he would pull federal funding from the city if he wins.
In his address to a crowd of supporters at a massive rally in Queens on Sunday, Mamdani, who faced racist and Islamophobic attacks, said that since Trump won the presidency just days after announcing his mayoral campaign, the Bronx and Queens showed some of the most significant rightward shifts compared to other parts of the country.
“We were told that if we had any hope of defeating the Republican Party, it would only be by becoming the Republican Party,” he told supporters. “And the choice we made was to stop listening to those experts and start listening to you.”