President Donald Trump’s effort to cast doubt on the 2020 election is in full swing. In the past week, he has wrongly called lawful vote-by-mail programs in Michigan and Nevada “voter fraud,” “illegal,” and “cheat[ing],” threatening to withhold federal funds if those states carry out their existing, lawful balloting processes. On Sunday, he tweeted that mail-in vote proponents were “trying to use Covid for this scam.”
President Donald Trump’s effort to cast doubt on the 2020 election is in full swing. In the past week, he has wrongly called lawful vote-by-mail programs in Michigan and Nevada “voter fraud,” “illegal,” and “cheat[ing],” threatening to withhold federal funds if those states carry out their existing, lawful balloting processes. On Sunday, he tweeted that mail-in vote proponents were “trying to use Covid for this scam.”
