Trump’s opposition to mail-in voting escalated after the 2020 election loss, when Election Day’s “Red Mir LOL” evaporated when mail-in votes were counted.
Trump vows to eliminate mail-in voting before mid-term 2026
US President Donald Trump has condemned mail-in voting and has pledged to “lead the movement” to abolish practices ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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- Trump said on social media he will sign an executive order to abolish mail-in voting.
- Trump has long been warning about mail-in voting fraud, but election officials say the options are safe.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to abolish mail-in voting. He said Russian President Vladimir Putin supported him.
Mail-in-the-ballots are a popular option for voters to avoid waiting in line at polling stations on Election Day. Election security officials say votes are safer than ever before and that the president has no role in overseeing elections. But Trump has long won for mail-in votes that are vulnerable to fraud. Despite election experts, including experts from his first administration, he said mail-in voting is safe.
“We’re going to finish the mail-in vote,” Trump told reporters on August 18 in the oval office. “That’s a scam.”
He repeated the discussion he had previously made in his social media post. He argued that elections are more reliable if everyone votes in person, not through a machine, but through a paper ballot.
“It’s very difficult to cheat,” Trump said of the in-person voting.
His comments and social media posts came after Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on August 15 that Putin’s Putin said, “A smart guy, you can’t vote honestly in an email-in vote.”
The Trump announcement came while special house races were pending in Arizona and Tennessee. New Jersey and Virginia will be selected as governors this November, with some metropolitan mayors being selected in New York and elsewhere. The entire country will vote for one-third of the Senate in 2026, one-third of the Senate, and president in 2028.
Email voting is popular. According to the Election Support Commission, of the 155 million votes in 2024, approximately 47 million were mailed.
Not all states track mail-in voting by party. However, according to a report from the Council of Foreign Relations, about 41% of the votes were cast by Democrats, 38% by Republicans, and 38% by Republicans.
Trump’s opposition to mail-in voting has become more aggressive after the 2020 election defeat. His campaign aide told Congress that his lead on Election Day was a “red mirage” before absentee votes were counted and he turned the victory over former President Joe Biden.
The massive looming conflict is about who will vote. State traditionally sets their own election rules, federal authorities monitor the accuracy of the results, and the Department of Justice could prosecute fraud.
Trump argues that the state is “just a “agent” to the federal government in counting votes and counting.”
“Me and the Republicans will fight like hell to restore integrity and integrity to our election,” Trump said on social media.
But election law experts say the president doesn’t play a role in elections.
“This is wrong and dangerous,” said Rick Hahnen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, on his blog on August 18th of Trump’s threatened order.
Joyce Vance White, a former US lawyer for Alabama, said Trump was “liing about the election.”
“Each state is holding its own election,” White told social media. “We don’t pay the president. It is the president who has the obligation to care that the law is faithfully executed.”
Sophia Lynn Lekin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, said Mail-in’s votes are valuable to people with disabilities and others who need flexibility to vote.
“President Trump’s attempts to undermine the safe, proven and reliable ways of voting that he himself uses are just another part of his strategy of distrust our elections, along with his attacks on voting techniques, and preventing voters from holding him accountable,” Lakin said.
