President Trump escalated his attacks on mail-in voting on Wednesday, targeting election officials in two battleground states over efforts to expand access to vote-by-mail ahead of November.
pandemic. The president has repeatedly criticized mail voting, a primary alternative to in-person voting, and casted doubt on the integrity of the practice during the crisis.
"Hi! I also have a name, it's Jocelyn Benson. And we sent applications, not ballots. Just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia," she tweeted., a state in which all active registered voters will automatically receive a mail-in ballot for the state's upcoming June primary.
In both tweets, the president also called the moves illegal and issued a stern threat against state leaders, suggesting he will retaliate by"holding up" funds to the state. Nevada has been at the center of a legal scuffle between Democrats and Republicans over efforts to expand vote-by-mail, attracting attention from both national parties over the issue.
Unlike Nevada, Michigan has not been the subject of a major lawsuit over mail voting yet, but the move by Benson could face a legal challenge from Republican state lawmakers, who are currently at sharp odds with Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her emergency declarations. GOP lawmakers even brought a lawsuit against Whitmer seeking to limit her emergency powers. Trump, too, has clashed with Whitmer during the coronavirus crisis over federal assistance.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at their weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 19, 2020.The White House press secretary declined to comment on what funds he was referring to."I won't get into exactly what the funding considerations are," she told reporters at the White House Wednesday.
As Trump heads to Michigan on Wednesday for a visit to a Ford Motor plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the state's chief executive called Trump's claims inaccurate and"disheartening." "It's not really clear which party benefits by putting a mail ballot request step into the voting process," said Michael McDonald, an elections expert and political science professor at the University of Florida."You look at what happened in Wisconsin, for example ... there was a much lower rate of mail balloting in rural jurisdictions."
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