Former President Donald Trump has endorsed absentee and early ballots as “good options” alongside Election Day voting as he seeks to rally Republican voters in his efforts to clinch a victory over his Democrat rival in the November election.
President Trump has long expressed a strong preference for Election Day voting while being a sharp critic of no-excuse mail-in ballots, repeatedly railing against the practice as rife with the potential for fraud.
Polling shows that Republican voters overwhelmingly share his reservations about no-excuse mail-in voting and tend to be suspicious of anything but same-day voting.
While the former president has said in the past that he doesn’t object to absentee ballots—meaning mail-in ballots that require a process including justification for reasons like disability or illness—he’s now giving them, and early voting more generally, a more full-throated endorsement….
