Trump To Vote In-Person In Florida On Saturday

Topline

After months of railing against voting by mail even as he utilized the process himself to vote in the primary earlier this year, President Trump will vote in-person in Florida on Saturday, the White House said Thursday.

Key Facts

Surprising Fact

Trump changed his primary residence from New York to Palm Beach, Florida last year (Palm Beach and West Palm Beach are both located in Palm Beach County.) In a tweet, he said he was making the change because he had “been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state,” adding he will always “cherish” the city. 

Key Background

Trump voted by mail during the Florida primary this year, handing off his ballot to a third party who dropped it off in-person, even as he repeatedly—and wrongly—attacked the process as being rife with fraud. In August, the president said he believed voting by mail was “safe and secure”—but only in Florida. “Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True,” he tweeted then. Trump has tried to make the distinction between absentee voting, which he supports, and mail-in voting, which he says is rigged—even though election experts say there’s no evidence to support either is rife with fraud.

Big Number

4,256,102. That’s about how many people have already voted in Florida, according to the U.S. Elections Project. More than 350,000 people voted in Florida on Monday, its first day of in-person early voting, shattering an opening day record, according to Politico.

Further Reading

Trump Now Says Mail-In Voting Is ‘Safe And Secure’ – But Only In Florida (Forbes)

Trump Tried To Register To Vote In Florida Using D.C. Address, Report Says (Forbes)