Abolishing Voting by Mail Will Hurt Republicans More Than Help
Trump has been thrashing about for months looking for ways to manipulate the midterms. He is so afraid that Republicans could lose Congress that he persuaded Texas Republicans to conduct a mid-decade redistricting to carve out five additional GOP congressional districts. He ordered the Department of Justice to create a federal database of information on voters, presumably to hunt for illegal voting and serve as a precursor to federal control of state elections. And now he's attacking the mail-in ballot, which Trump has long claimed, without evidence, cost him the 2020 presidential election.
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