President Trump’s unfounded attacks on mail balloting are discouraging his own supporters from embracing the practice, according to polls and Republican leaders across the country, prompting growing alarm that one of the central strategies of his campaign is threatening GOP prospects in November.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
As Trump leans into attacks on mail voting, GOP officials confront signs of Republican turnout crisis
By Amy Gardner
and August 3, 2020 at 10:47 a.m. EDT