Trump, Who Says Mail-in Voting Is “Cheating,” Votes by Mail. Again.

President Trump, who has staunchly opposed mail-in voting as part of his delusions of mass voter fraud, voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary elections Tuesday, according to https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/trump-mail-vote-florida-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New York Times.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that mail-in voting is not secure. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” the president said in March.

This is at least the third time Trump has voted by mail since he began railing against the practice.

In March, Trump voted https://newrepublic.com/post/208096/donald-trump-mail-vote-save-act-florida-blasting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by mail-in ballot during a special election in Palm Beach.

When pressed on his decision to engage in the supposedly fraudulent act of mail-in voting, Trump https://newrepublic.com/post/208220/trump-fact-check-vote-mail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claimed that it was important for him to stay in Washington D.C.—but the president had journeyed back to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach earlier that month.

He’d also previously https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903886567/trump-while-attacking-mail-voting-casts-mail-ballot-again" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">voted by mail in 2020.

Terrified of Republican losses in November’s midterm elections, Trump has spent months unsuccessfully lobbying his allies to pass the draconian SAVE Act, which promises to ban mail-in voting.

Last week, Trump https://newrepublic.com/post/214189/donald-trump-national-emergency-voter-id-midterm-elections" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mulled the possibility of declaring a national security emergency in order to place limits on mail-in ballots and impose a slate of other voting restrictions.

Earlier this year, Trump signed an https://newrepublic.com/post/208461/blue-states-donald-trump-mail-in-voting-executive-order" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">executive order requiring the U.S. Postal Service to bar any person not included on a massive federal voter list from receiving a mail-in or absentee ballot.

Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit https://newrepublic.com/post/213632/trump-legal-victory-mail-in-voting-restrictions-voter-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruled that the Democratic lawsuit challenging the order was premature.