What’s going on?
In July, Trump said “mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.” That’s a claim he has made repeatedly now he has changed his tune.
Vote Early by Mail
Republicans must WIN the 2026 Midterm Elections, and we must use every appropriate tool — Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must “swamp” the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout! SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Oct 03, 2026, 7:10 AM
Trump, Critic of Voting by Mail, Urges Republicans to Do It in Midterms
The New York Times reports Trump, Critic of Voting by Mail, Urges Republicans to Do It in Midterms
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
In March, Mr. Trump signed an executive order that would have restricted mail ballots. The action was struck down by the Supreme Court in September. He also sought unsuccessfully to push Congress to approve legislation that would have sharply curtailed mail voting.
Richard Pildes, an election law expert at New York University, said Mr. Trump’s statement appeared to be a major shift and a response to his efforts to restrict mail-in voting failing “across the board.”
“He’s realizing that his efforts to change policy on mail-in voting have basically run aground at this point, and he’s shifting gears,” Mr. Pildes said.
Doug Heye, a Republican strategist, said that it was too soon to say if Mr. Trump would stick to the message, adding that it would be no surprise if the president returned to his claims that mail voting is fraud in the days to come.
Q: What’s going on?
A: Trump is suddenly fearful of low turnout.
No Republican can possibly be looking forward to the bloodbath that’s about to happen.
If non-MAGA Republicans don’t vote, we are going to see some shocking results.
How Not to Encourage Voting
Quite Presidential
MAGA Is Overrun by Scandals, Insane Nonsense, and Infighting
In case you missed it, please see MAGA Is Overrun by Scandals, Insane Nonsense, and Infighting
It’s been a very bad week for MAGA.
Expect more of the same, with Trump leading the way.
Regardless of where you stand on executions, I think that every Veterinarian ( Animal doctor for you Maga people) can do a better job of putting down a dog or cat with less sadistic pleasure than those inhumane purveyors of justice.
Out of curiosity, I took Rome and its fall, and then imposed some information being spewed about Europes Fall and what’s happening. And added some talked about possibilities in America, if it falls.if voting goes the wrong way…
For Fun, out of curiosity, so read as such…
The fall of America as the dominant power in The World for over 75 Years, its end brought about significant changes. At the same time, the legacy of America was never erased. Over Decades of history left an indelible mark on the world.
Over the next few decades, America was in trouble. Decades of systemic political and economic problems had left it a shell of its former self. Muslims were another issue. Defined at the time as a group of people outside of American cultural, historical, political, and linguistic sphere, Muslims increasingly attempted to settle within the empire during the first few decades.
Powers couldn’t keep one of the defining features of: Conservative Principles, By the time America fell, many different Ethnic groups had established independent kingdoms across its old States. ALL the dominant and rich States long gone, and in tatters,as the Vandals established their own states. Over time, they developed their own cultures and political systems. All these factors formed the foundation of an America with many Countries owning and running it.
Voting can be this important, and has been over time…
Taco says to vote and vote often as you can.
Let’s check the track record of GOP and Democratic convictions for voting fraud. This all tracks.
The flip side of non-MAGA Republicans lacking the will to vote…
everyone else being pissed off enough to vote in midterms…
when they never have before.
The count is 2 out 2 in this Texas Household.
Trump Humiliated by Empty Seats at Red State MAGA RallyNot even ruby-red Alabama could pack a state university’s arena for the president.
Donald Trump spoke to rows of empty seats on Friday during his “big rally” in Mobile, Alabama. MS Now’s Jen Psaki noted that the venue, not even half full, holds 10,000 people. “For context,” she added, “when Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015, he was able to fill an arena three times that size in the exact same city.”
https://www2.thedailybeast.com/trump-humiliated-by-empty-seats-at-red-state-maga-rally
While the swamp and corruption are actually bipartisan, the voters have not forgotten the degree of depravity in the DNC party since 2020. Little has changed.
MAGA has completely cornered the market on depravity.
Of course, little has changed….We know Trump and his minions are lying because their lips are always moving🤣
I have news for Mr. Trump. This farmer and former Republican is voting Democrat across the board.
Republicans have been lead into insane policies that hurt all Americans and defy the rule of law by a pedophile and ultra right wing war monger.
No group of politicians have lied more than the current crop of thieves and perverts in the White House!
And since I just returned from the after church social, I should report that there were a few Trump supporters loudly boasting that Trump was going to lower diesel prices and send $5,000 checks to everybody. They did not get much traction as most of us simply walked away and left them to leave them within their shrunken silo.
Universal laughter rings out amongst the stars as virtually all row crop farmers in America will loose money this year.
You should encourage them to go spend the $5000 before they receive the check.
People will see that check when pigs fly. O also the tariff checks!! You can bank on it!! 🙂
And yet, somehow Biden was equally as bad and Trump was the lesser of two evils. Kamala, a black woman, was stupid. The thinking here is abysmally bad.
Biden was not remotely as bad as Trump, we were recovering from the first Trump disaster nicely. Now Trump has us spiraling toward bankruptcy. Kamala was a self made woman that worked her way up. Even I as a Republican voted for her.
The thinking here is that the presidency should not be occupied by bullies, pedophiles or liars. That puts Trump on the outside of the qualifications, but inside the proverbial prison cell.
Kamala a self-made woman? She got to where she did in CA politics by riding Willie Brown’s schlong.
BULLSCHMITT
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/i-told-you-so
Sam Kriss is as far as one can get from a trumper.
How many didn’t vote for her because they never got past her skin color and what’s between her legs?
Sounds like you voted for him last time.
Absolutely not…
But appreciate the humor!
So demented diaper Don is now bi-polar too? why isn’t this being reported in MSM?
We should have a betting pool as to when the big diaper baby will whine the elections were rigged.
Do worry, Trump, Walrus, GOP, and democrats will find a way to make things even worse.™
The king of crass is outdoing even President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camachor. He must have been reading the script of the movie Idiocracy:
“Now I understand everyone’s shit’s emotional right now…Shit. I know shit’s bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.” –President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camachor
Wait, Trump is African American?
Wait, are you from 2505, and so unable to comprehend the english language?
It was a joke, man.
You and Kentucky/wherever that happened both need to improve your execution
The question that the bobbleheads in mainstream media seem too stupidly ignorant to ask: “The Party that won the House, the Senate and the Presidency said that the elections were rigged?”
When a Political Party allows one man to take a nation of 330 million plus people to war without the vote of the peoples’s representatives, we are not talking about the actions of a Democracy, nor are we talking about the actions of a Democratic-Republic for which our founding fathers risked their very lives to establish — we are basically talking about the actions of Fascists, for only in a Fascist State would such an action ever be allowed.
Bingo!
Trump is the representative of the people.You have chosen. Its majority.
He is supported by
You like it or not.that’s the system how it works.
You need to change the system.
That’s why Presidential candidate always scream ” Change “, “Alternative “, “MAGA”
trumpster left out vote often;-)
My perspective is a Canadian one so it is only an impression. Looking at the widespread corruption in the US electoral processes and vile party machinery that runs the campaigns, I conclude that the dominant rule is “Vote early and vote often.” No wonder people don’t participate. If the election system was an airplane, would you fly in it?
There is absolutely no proof of “widespread” election fraud in the US system.
“widespread corruption” = “my preferred candidate didn’t win”.
Makes sense: the earlier the voting or voting by mail, the lower the diesel prices and transportation cost and the higher the residual approval ratings at the time of voting.
By the time of the midterms, with the current crude and refined products global short supplies, with harvest coming, with old man winter coming, and with the targeting of some of the global 8-900 refineries continuing, the cost of diesel and gas may drive the presidential job approval ratings to near 30%.
Sub 30% is likely!
I am sitting with my ballot in front of me
(its long)
Let me put out a point here on Mail-In Voting as it connects with the ACTUAL voters who might vote for TrumpCO: OLD FOLKS who are not ABLE to walk, are crippled or too old to drive. That number COULD be substantial.
I am guessing that the typical MAGA type is OLD and cannot think straight any longer. My 87 year old dad is in that category. He lives rurally.
He also cannot think straight on Trump. He falls for that bullshit….hook/line/sinker. Swallows it up on the Nightly news….he is OLD SCHOOL.
Same here. My mom watches sitcom reruns and fox news, 10hr a day. She thinks Trump was trying to make peace in the ME.
True, he is making
“Rest in Peace”
They are Foxwashed!
Trump: “We’re gonna win big, and we’ve gonna shove it up their ass”
There’s why the trailer park evangelicals love him!
He’s so Presidential!
He thinks that’s how Ohioans talk.
Get everyone to vote. Encourage mail-in voting.
Democrats dominate mail-in.
Declare mail-in as corrupt. Throw out all mail-in votes leaving a majority of Republicans.
I gonna go out on a limb. The phrase “You’ll get tired” was true (the winning part I disagree with).
How do the voters choose their president?
The candidate must have some criteria such as
The voters did not choose their president. Trump never received a majority of the vote.
Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years.
Outcome: 312 electoral votes was Trumps total.
I don’t care what he may or may not have broken for records, although he probably does. The fact of the matter, is that Trump won, and by a lot of votes.
Trump won with less than 1/2 of the popular vote, and only 1 point ahead of Kamala Harris who only had 3 months to campaign.
Well, if she had more time, cackling queen Kamala would have lost by more.
Also, the “only 3 months” thing happened because you donorCRAT bastards kept yammering about how Biden was “sharp as a tack” and related crap until you were proven to be liars – on national TV.
I am convinced the donor class wanted trump. No one with any brains and interest in winning would block a primary challenge and then run kamala as their candidate. The donors have brains. Therefore, they didn’t want the D’s to win.
The donor class makes sure that no matter who wins, it is THEY who ultimately win. They would be fine with either of the two.
What they would NOT want are forces that are based on working class solidarity that would pose a clear threat to the dominance of the donor class.
The way I saw it was that when the Democrats realized that they couldn’t win with Joe Biden, they were stuck with Kamala Harris. It is more or less usual in America for the Vice-President to a retiring President to be allowed a shot at the top job, and if they hadn’t let her be the candidate, the feminists and colored voters would never have forgiven them. So they had to write off the election. As “whirlaway” says below, the donor class (which included corporates as I understand it) always wins.
LOL all dems I know were more than upset Biden burned us by running again after promising to be a one termer. We mostly thought his brain was cooked before the last midterms. Your revisionist history is entertaining.
Donald Trump received approximately 76.9 million votes in the 2024 election, which allowed him to win the popular vote against Kamala Harris, who garnered about 74.4 million votes.
He was still less than 50%. About 3% of voters went with 3rd party candidates or Mish.
And B.J. Clinton won with less than 50% in both 1992 and 1996. So?
(In 1992, it was less than 44%).
His statement is entirely correct.
You speak of what you do not know…
ok, temu gandalf.
Or Yoda.
Hopefully it lightened things up a bit…
It did!
Of course he did. Trump has only predation or parasitism toward any principle, rule or institution. He can only gnaw away at what others create. He has never created anything substantially original or value-generating (with a few relatively tiny exceptions, real estate developments, mostly in 1970s-1980s New York City). It is overwhelmingly the opposite, though done opulently (garishly).
– He has never created anything substantially original or value-generating.
> So every Democrat, some Republicans, and many doom and gloom said impossible to shut the border, for the safety and security of America and Americans.
>> In short order, against all odds, with not a lot of assistance, he stopped illegal immigration dead in its tracks. This certainly Qualifies for an unbelievable “Creation” most thought impossible. It would most certainly be considered “Substantial” And “Value Generating”
I am confused by what you speak about, as it’s not reality or what actually occurred…
Thanks for objectively journaling events, Mish.
– In July, Trump said “mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.” That’s a claim he has made repeatedly now he has changed his tune.
> Not exactly as you suggest however. He has been forced to use all means necessary, and unfortunately “Mail In” ballots have been (imo unwisely) one of those approved methods of Voting.
>> While I agree with Trump on this, and also “One Day” Voting should be mandatory as well imo. They both are not, so you must play the cards you are dealt. He wisely now must agree with what’s Law, and Everyone now needs to use these tools to elect your candidate.
Absolutely nothing has changed in his view or stance, other than he must now push means of voting that he disagrees with, but were changed, and he is helpless to change it back. Can’t blame Trump for doing what he must within the boundaries of the approved method of voting.
This “rally” was local to me here in OH.
Trump is not wise. He is a flaming narcissist; that is why his skin is so orange. He has acted like a jackass for years, and, while initially it was great to hear someone willing to boldly say (some) things that others were too afraid to say, we now know it came out of Trump’s own vanity and narcissism rather than out of some principled person who was willing to take a stand on their principles and consequences be damned. He isn’t standing on principle, but rather exhibiting what the medical literature euphemistically calls a narcissist’s “low sense if self-awareness.”
My ex-sister-in-law is a narcissist as well as bi-polar, manic-depressive, with ADHD. Having read lots of her messages sent to my quadriplegic war-vet brother through OFW, Trump sounds just like her. He isn’t playing 5-D chess, rattling the cages of insane leftists just to get them to reveal their true selves while always staying one step ahead of them strategically while he works to “take our country back.” He is creating conflict as narcissists do in order to control and dominate relationships.
To sit there as a POTUS and talk about “shoving it up” your opponent’s ass…. It’s great if as a Libertarian you want to see the undermining of people’s respect for government. That is one thing Trump has done that no other president has: removed the velvet glove covering the steel hand and laid bare for all to see that Washington was right: government is not Reason, it is not Eloquent, it is FORCE. And like fire, it is both a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
R’s are NOT polling well here. People everywhere are sick of continually seeing their cost of living go up, having to give up more and more or, as is more the case with most Americans these days, take on more debt.
Rama-lama-dingdong is a carpetbagging Tech Bro. Never heard of him before 2024, and it is clear that having lost the 2024 race for the presidential nomination, he just wants to get some governorship stink on him before he tries again. People around here don’t take kindly to people like ‘Swamy who are debate champions (probably also did spelling bees) who are fast talkers in a debate but who clearly want to turn Ohio into some version of the Indian caste system. A data center on every corner as long as it isn’t near ‘Swamy’s corner. His desperation is showing. He is running commercials with old white blue collar retirees telling us Vivek will “look out” for him and running negative attack ads against his D opponent claiming she is a wine-o who mixes alcohol with prescription meds and was having nervous breakdowns during COVID because she couldn’t handle the stress.
Husted is a nice guy. He has worked at the state level for years. But like in 2006 when his boss Dewine got voted out of office in place of Sherrod Brown, this isn’t a good time to have an R after your name. Sherrod Brown is a total douchebag. Has never held a job that wasn’t some political office. Got caught with drugs in his car back in the day and blamed it on his aide. But people are mad enough right now that Brown’s chances are looking good.
Stupid you can count on.
Don’t be so hard on yourself… Trump can be a jerk at times, and he uses his position to move the needle, so I agree with you, as well as do so many others.
He is using the laws as they stand, and everyone knows that, and would do and do the same. It’s called Politics. You may wish, and many do, for more, but it is what it is… One must work within the boundaries that they are afforded. He has shortened his own leash I would agree, but still has to work within what he has left.
You have a lot of preposterous notions in here. The idea of one day voting being mandatory is bullshit unless you are going to give every single person in the country a guaranteed day of vacation no matter what their fucking boss says.
Which means everything is grounded and closed up tighter than a pandemic. No restaurants, hospitals, public transit, police, or fire.
But I’m pretty sure you don’t want to give anybody a day off work.
– The idea of one day voting being mandatory is bullshit.
> We still do so in America, what do you mean?
– unless you are going to give every single person…blah, blah.
> We don’t do so now, but have a mechanism to handle such request when they arrive, but best be legitimate.
– But I’m pretty sure you don’t want to give anybody a day off work.
> It doesn’t take a day, and this is for your “Freedom, Safety, Future, Children’s World after You etc. I think most can do so, it if not they have a mechanism to use to do so.
How do I know? I have used it, I live in a State that does and I pay attention…
You could move to Australia – “mandatory voting” there – you MAGAs would like that.
Mandatory anything that you vote upon, would be foolish imo.
Mandatory voting in Australia doesn’t seem to make much difference. You can cast a blank ballot if you want to.