{"id":3246,"date":"2020-08-14T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:14:34","slug":"trump-urges-floridians-to-vote-by-mail-while-suing-over-remote-voting-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"Trump Urges Floridians To Vote by Mail While Suing Over Remote Voting in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;<strong>After months of casting suspicion on the whole concept of mail-in voting, the president is suddenly behind it\u2026 for states where he has a stronghold.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;In Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot &amp; Vote by Mail!&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1290692768675901440\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0&#8220;Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True,&#8221; the president opined on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Meanwhile, his campaign\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/trump-campaign-sues-nevada-over-bill-expanding-mail-in-voting-for-general-election\" target=\"_blank\">is suing to\u00a0<em>stop<\/em><\/a>\u00a0the state of Nevada from expanding its mail-in voting protocol.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Nevada went for Clinton in 2016, and Florida went for Trump, so that might be one clue. The president has also criticized the prospect of expanding mail-in ballot access in California, a reliably blue state.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"w1B2p6Vv5w\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/08\/05\/trumps-wants-absentee-voting-for-florida-but-not-nevada\/\">Trump Urges Floridians To Vote by Mail While Suing Over Remote Voting in Nevada<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trump Urges Floridians To Vote by Mail While Suing Over Remote Voting in Nevada&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/08\/05\/trumps-wants-absentee-voting-for-florida-but-not-nevada\/embed\/#?secret=x85Nm1g4ij#?secret=w1B2p6Vv5w\" data-secret=\"w1B2p6Vv5w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After months of casting suspicion on the whole concept of mail-in voting, the president is suddenly behind it\u2026 for states where he has a stronghold. &#8220;In Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot &#038; Vote by Mail!&#8221; Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True,&#8221; the president opined on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his campaign is suing to stop the state of Nevada from expanding its mail-in voting protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nevada went for Clinton in 2016, and Florida went for Trump, so that might be one clue. The president has also criticized the prospect of expanding mail-in ballot access in California, a reliably blue state.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,170,658,479],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump","tag-vote-by-mail","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}