US President Donald Trump pledged Monday that he will try to eliminate mail-in voting, after telling Fox News that authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with him on the subject during their meeting last week.
Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter, Trump declared in a Truth Social post that he would sign an executive order to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections,” and attempt to strip states of their independent authority to oversee elections, and is demanding they just do what he tells them to.
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES,” the president wrote, referencing conservatives’ disproven claims and conspiracies regarding voter fraud in the 2020 election, which he lost.
