Donald Trump forcefully defended his tariffs on Thursday, claiming tariffs are my favorite word in the dictionary and promoting their use to empower American manufacturing at an event in north-west Georgia. Without tariffs, this country would be in so much trouble right now, Trump said during his remarks at Coosa Steel Corporation, a steel-processing and distribution firm in Rome, Georgia.
Derrin Robinson has worked in Oregon elections for more than 30 years, long enough to remember when voters in the state cast their ballots at physical polling sites instead of by mail. As the nonpartisan clerk of Harney County, a vast, rural expanse larger than Massachusetts, Robinson oversees elections with about 6,000 registered voters. Oregon has exclusively conducted elections by mail since 2000, a system he thinks works well, requires fewer staff and doesn't force voters to travel through treacherous weather to reach a polling place. As you can tell, I'm not an advocate for going back, Robinson said.
the White House released the text of a sprawling executive order allegedly designed to ensure the integrity of U.S. elections. It demanded that states share their voter rolls with federal officials; mandated onerous proof-of-citizenship rules for people registering to vote (rules which didn't include drivers' licenses as valid forms of ID for this purpose); threatened local and state officials who didn't cooperate with this power grab with legal sanctions; and ostensibly outlawed the counting of any mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
As President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned leaders who tried to overturn his 2020 loss, the US Supreme Court took up the national Republican Party's argument that counting mailed ballots shortly after Election Day violates federal law. Voting by mail has long been a target of the GOP president, who has falsely claimed that the practice fuels voter fraud. This case concerns a Mississippi law that allows mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted as long as they arrive within five business days,
Despite this (or maybe because of this), President Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday morning to declare without evidence that the Prop 50 California election is rigged. The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED, Trump posted. All Mail-In' Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are Shut Out,' is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!
