Even if Trump did follow through with such a bold order, it would immediately be challenged in the courts
Photo: Getty Images It’s been a big week for the questions “Can Trump do that?” and “Will he actually follow through?” First was his threat by tweet of delaying the election, one of his most brazen authoritarian attempts yet, and thankfully, one of his least realistic, as only Congress can call for such a suspension.
At the White House task force coronavirus press conference on Monday, those two queries again applied to President Trump’s increasingly obvious strategy to delegitimize the mail-in ballot this November. In response to a question from a reporter from the far-right OAN network regarding the vast expansion of voting by mail due to the pandemic, Trump said that he is considering stopping any further efforts to make mail-in voting easier, claiming: “I have the right to do it.
The president, who spent the decade prior to his entry into politics in reality TV, is prone to such cliffhanger pronouncements. But even if he did follow through with such a bold order, it would immediately be challenged in the courts by voting rights advocates — who would properly detail the minuscule threat of mail-in ballot fraud.
As New York’s Ed Kilgore has noted, the president is engaging in a two-pronged strategy to demonize voting by mail, by which he is encouraging Republican voters to brave the pandemic and vote in-person while drumming up the potential for fraudulent mail-in ballots — while slowing the ability of the USPS to deliver mail in a timely manner.
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