From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   If he can't use his usual gerrymandering, vote interceptions, restricting poll   
   stations, and intimidation by hired thugs, he can't see how the hell he could   
   win any election.     
      
   Covid 19 was a blessing in disguise for American voters.  Because most do not   
   want to interact with others in line ups or the polling stations, they've   
   decided to vote by mail.     
      
   How the hell are the Trump Republicans supposed to win in any election without   
   their usual duplicity and dirty tricks?     
      
   Well, here's one way Trump is trying to undermine the mail-in system:   
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   Trump says he opposes funding USPS because of mail-in voting   
      
   (CNN) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he opposes much-needed funding   
   for the United States Postal Service because he doesn't want to see it used   
   for mail-in voting this November.   
      
   By directly linking USPS funding to mail-in voting, Trump is fueling   
   allegations that he is trying to manipulate the postal system for political   
   gain. The pandemic has led to record-shattering levels of voting-by-mail, but   
   Trump has tried to restrict the    
   voting method because he says it will hurt his re-election and Republicans   
   across the board.   
      
   During an interview on Fox News, Trump said that if USPS does not receive the   
   additional $25 billion funding request that Democrats included in the ongoing   
   stimulus negotiations, then he believes the Post Office won't be able to   
   handle the influx of mail-   
   in ballots in the upcoming election.   
      
   "They want three and a half billion dollars for something that'll turn out to   
   be fraudulent, that's election money basically. They want three and a half   
   billion dollars for the mail-in votes. Universal mail-in ballots. They want   
   $25 billion, billion, for    
   the Post Office. Now they need that money in order to make the Post Office   
   work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump   
   said, repeating his false claims that mail-in voting would be "fraudulent."   
      
   "But if they don't get those two items that means you can't have universal   
   mail-in voting because you they're not equipped to have it," Trump added.   
      
   Trump has criticized mail-in voting for months, baselessly asserting that it   
   will lead to voter fraud.   
      
   There is not widespread voter fraud in US elections, and nonpartisan experts   
   say neither party automatically benefits when states expand access to mail-in   
   voting.   
   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's claims during an interview on   
   MSNBC, saying the $25 billion for USPS was proposed by the agency's Board of   
   Governors, not Democrats.   
      
   "In the legislation we have $25 billion, that is the number that is   
   recommended by the Board of Governors of the US postal service," Pelosi said   
   in the interview, also noting that "a bipartisan Board of Governors, 100%   
   appointed by Donald Trump, they    
   recommended $25 billion dollars."   
      
   Pelosi added that in previous congressional bills on the coronavirus, "the   
   President has stood in the way of any money for the postal service."   
      
   Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign called   
   Trump's comments an "assault on our democracy," in a statement.   
      
   ""The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that   
   hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for   
   rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive   
   Americans of their fundamental    
   right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over   
   100 years," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.   
      
   Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, said in a tweet that   
   Trump's comments are "voter suppression, plain and simple."   
      
   The President had previously stated that USPS would not have the ability to   
   handle the increase in mail-in votes that will be sent in this year due to the   
   coronavirus pandemic, a claim the Postal Service has rebuffed.   
      
   "The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and   
   delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume,   
   including any additional volume that may result as a response to the Covid-19   
   pandemic," the agency said    
   in a statement.   
      
   David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election   
   Innovation and Research, said Trump's attacks on USPS hurt voters, including   
   many of his own supporters who vote-by-mail.   
      
   "He's openly encouraging his voters to use that, but he's hurting those same   
   voters by opposing bipartisan efforts to provide enough funding to ensure all   
   voters in those states, including his own, can vote by mail without problems,"   
   Becker said.   
      
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