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Trump did not specify which funds he would hold, but said “I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”
Michigan sends absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020
President Trump has become very vocal in his disapproval of mail-in voting. He said, without evidence, that it “doesn’t work out well for Republicans.”
The morning tweets come after Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that Michigan would send out absentee voter applications by mail, not ballots, as Trump stated in a now-deleted tweet.
Benson said in a statement that no “voter should have to choose between their health & their vote. And every Michigan citizen has a right under our state constitution to vote by mail. With funding from the federal CARES act, I am ensuring that every registered voter has the tool to conveniently exercise that right.”
In addition, Nevada will hold their state primary all by mail on June 9. Their Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske announced that “country election officials have begun to mail out 2020 primary election ballots and that voters can expect to receive their ballot inn the mail in the next two weeks.”
Trump spoke out against the movement saying, “If they do [send out mail in ballots] ‘I think’ I can hold up funds to the state.”
State of Nevada “thinks” that they can send out illegal vote by mail ballots, creating a great Voter Fraud scenario for the State and the U.S. They can’t! If they do, “I think” I can hold up funds to the State. Sorry, but you must not cheat in elections. @RussVought45 @USTreasury— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020