President Donald Trump threatened to ban mail voting and end the use of voting machines, citing alleged massive voter fraud and promising an executive order for the 2026 midterms. Legal experts quickly noted that the president lacks unilateral authority to carry out such actions. The campaign against mail voting functions as part of a broader Republican strategy to portray unfavorable election outcomes as illegitimate and suspicious, aiming to diminish Democratic competitiveness. The pattern traces to post-2020 efforts that promoted unproven fraud claims and cultivated a political culture where defeated Republicans blame alleged ballot irregularities and seek restrictive remedies.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump threatened to do two things that are (stop me if you've heard this before) extremely illegal: ban mail voting and end the use of voting machines in U.S. elections. In a lengthy, erratically capitalized post on Truth Social, Trump bemoaned the "MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD" ostensibly inherent in these practices and promised to sign an executive order to ensure the "HONESTY AND INTEGRITY" of the 2026 midterms.
But his vendetta against mail voting is less an earnest attempt to eradicate the practice by next fall than part of the Republican Party's long-standing commitment to framing election outcomes it does not like as inherently illegitimate and suspicious. The president tacitly acknowledged as much on Truth Social: One of the primary benefits of getting rid of mail voting, he asserted, is that Democrats would be "virtually Unelectable" without it.
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