President Trump is hurting the electoral chances of Republicans in the fall elections, and likely even his own, by making false claims that voting by mail is not secure, said former Pennsylvania Gov. and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is hurting the electoral chances of Republican politicians in the fall elections, and likely even his own, by making false claims that voting by mail is not secure, a Republican former governor and top homeland security official said.
Ridge, who was governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001, did not vote for Trump in 2016 and spoke out publicly against him during the election. But Ridge’s appeal to Trump’s self-interest is part of the 74-year-old Vietnam veteran’s effort to promote mail-in voting. Republican voters are less likely than Democrats or independents to support voting by mail, with polls showing only about 40 percent support. That likely reflects Trump’s opposition. Although he and other members of his family and administration have voted by mail in recent elections, he has been on a campaign against it for months, claiming without any evidence that “mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.
Five states — Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Hawaii — already conducted their elections entirely by mail before the COVID-19 crisis created a new sense of urgency to expand this option for more voters. California, Arizona and Montana conduct most of their elections by mail, and another 24 states allow anyone who wants to cast a mail ballot to do so.
In other battleground states such as Florida and Wisconsin, meanwhile, Republican operatives have been saying for months now that the GOP needs to be aggressive in pushing voters to vote by mail.
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