Killing his own supporters
Lloyd Green
A plague is raging and the president is leaving the heartlands and blue-collar voters exposed
Sun 5 Apr 2020 17.07 EDT
Last modified on Sun 5 Apr 2020 17.32 EDT
... the Wisconsin Republican party ... is fighting in the US supreme court efforts to extend mail-in voting for this Tuesday’s Democratic primary ...
... If the US were to adopt mail-in voting, said the president, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”.
For good measure, Trump later declared from the White House: “I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting.”
... Trump voted by mail in 2018. In March, the Palm Beach Post reported that he had requested a mail-in vote for the Florida Republican primary ...
For the moment, Trump holds a commanding lead among Republicans ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/trump-is-killing-his-own-supporters-coronavirus-covid-19