Donald Trump has spent the last couple weeks throwing very massive temper tantrums about
everything from the investigations in Georgia, the special prosecutor, uh, the lawsuits he's
facing, the judges he's appointed.
Carl Rove, for some reason, I think, him off and he went on a rant about him.
But one of the weirder things that Donald Trump decided to attack this week, of course,
was mail-in voting.
So Donald Trump earlier this week gets on truth social, mostly all caps, and he sends
out this, our elections are rigged.
Mail-in ballots are a total scam.
How about all those broken Republican voting machines?
Smart Republicans, or you won't have a party or country left.
Remember, you can never have fair and free elections with mail-in ballots.
Never, never, never won't, and can't happen.
What he is doing here, and I love the fact that he doesn't even realize this is what
he's doing, um, he's disenfranchising Republican voters, who's the core base of the Republican
voting block.
Older people who's the core base of voting by mail older people.
So by telling these people, people, some of whom no longer have transportation, right?
So they can't physically go down to the voting booth.
Some of them are not in good enough health to make it down to a polling booth.
So they vote by mail.
It's a very common practice.
Republicans down here in Florida that has a huge elderly population, they are solely
reliant on mail-in voting to push them over the top each, each election.
And here you have Donald Trump, who also happens to be a senior citizen living down here in
Florida.
trashing mail-in voting.
And the best part is his words do have consequences.
We saw it in Georgia in early 2021.
Republicans stayed home in that runoff because Trump had spent the last month and a half
railing about how unsafe and unsecure our elections were.
So Republicans looked at it and said, oh, I guess it's unsecure.
Trump says, it's not secure.
I'm not gonna vote.
That seems dangerous.
And now he's attacking mail-in voting.
See what happened, and, and I'll use Florida again as an example, because this is absolutely
hilarious, is Republicans in the state of Florida who have firm control over our state
and have for decades now, uh, passed a bill that limited who is allowed to vote by mail,
and then immediately after passing it reports surfaced of them worrying behind the scenes.
Like, oh crap.
I think we just disenfranchised our entire base here in Florida.
Like most people who vote by mail in Florida are actually Republicans.
And we just made it harder for them to do that.
Oh God, we gotta fix it.
And that's exactly what they did.
and Trump is out here right now telling people, don't do it.
It's unreliable.
There is no evidence, by the way, to suggest that voting by mail is somehow dangerous or
that is somehow less reliable.
Trump is making these things up because he cannot and will not ever get over losing to
Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
So he's gonna continue railing against these things probably for the next two years, and
it's going to help disenfranchise more Republicans who will believe anything he says.
They'll no longer vote by mail.
And then when it's a little too late to realize that they're gonna understand, oh, but I also
have no way to get to the polls, so I guess I'm just not gonna vote.