Trump and McConnell have been attacking and undermining our right to vote for the last 4 years
- President Trump has repeatedly asked foreign governments for ammunition to be used against his political opponents, including from Ukrainian president Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-china-bidens.html. See also transcript of Trump phone call with Zelensky: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
- President Trump has repeatedly discouraged voting by mail during a pandemic, claiming it would lead to “massive fraud and abuse.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-attacks-voting-by-mail-gop-builds-2020-strategy-around-limiting-its-expansion/2020/05/31/a17ccfa0-a00d-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html
- The Trump administration has tried to use the courts to stop mail in voting in Pennsylvania. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/505092-trump-campaign-sues-pennsylvania-county-election-boards-over-mail-in-voting
- President Trump’s Postmaster General has implemented cost-cutting measures that directly threaten the ability of the post office to handle the expected scale of mail-in ballots. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/trump-usps-mail-delays.html
- Between 2016 and 2018, more than 17 million names were taken off voter rolls nationwide because of “inactivity,” including 22.3% of all the voters in Indiana. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/voter-purges-wisconsin-republican-election/
- President Trump is on record as saying that if it were made easier for people to vote, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus
- California Republican Party admitted to placing more than 50 illegal and misleading ballot boxes around state in run-up to November election. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-gop-drop-boxes.html
- President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the November election will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/30/trump-unleashed-torrent-disinformation-about-voter-fraud-debate/
- President Trump has repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results of the November election and step down if he loses the election. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/politics/trump-election-warnings-leaving-office/index.html
We simply cannot afford four more years of this attacking and undermining of our democracy