When she’s not bashing LGBTQ people or talking trash about her boss on live TV, Trump’s new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is defending his assault on vote-by-mail, falsely claiming that it will lead to election fraud.
She’s also been peddling the lie on her Twitter page.
? Get the facts about mail-in ballots!
Will the media, and @Twitter, acknowledge these real concerns with mass mail-in voting?
THREAD ??
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 26, 2020
Now, the Tampa Bay Times reports that, McEnany, who believes marriage equality is an attack on “religious institutions” and trans people pose a threat to women’s rights, has voted my mail… nearly a dozen times in the last decade.
The newspaper reports:
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The Tampa native has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010, according to a Tampa Bay Times review of her voting history. Most recently, she voted by mail in the state’s March 2020 presidential primary, just as Trump did after he made Florida his new permanent home.
In total, McEnany has cast 11 mail-in ballots over the last ten years.
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When asked for comment on her voting-by-mail history, 32-year-old McEnany tried spinning a narrative that made absolutely no sense. In a statement, she said:
Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. President Trump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud. This is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.
There’s just one teensy tiny glaringly obvious problem with her defense… Florida doesn’t have absentee voting.
For years, the state has allowed anyone to vote by mail for any reason. Also, voting my mail doesn’t have a “high propensity for voter fraud.”
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, there have been over 250 million ballots cast by mail since 2000. In 2018 alone, over 31 million Americans, or 25.8% of election participants, voted by mail.
Despite these enormous numbers, one study determined that the rate of fraud is roughly 0.0000001 percent, meaning you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than have your vote stolen.
Hey, remember earlier this month when McEnany pinky swore to reporters that she would “never lie” to them? HAHAHA.
"I will never lie to you. You have my word on that." — Kayleigh McEnany during her first press briefing as press secretary (bookmark this) pic.twitter.com/PqUhRAWiun
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
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wancell
Vote by mail being purposed by many where ballots are automatically being sent out to voters is vastly different from Absentee Ballots when a registered voter places the request for it due to a special allowable reason determined by the state.
People need to stop confusing the two.
If you want to seriously look at vote by mail, then read up on how Washington State accomplished it by working on it for years.
Den
All states offer absentee ballots, two thirds have no restrictions on it and all who request the mail-in ballots get them. All mail voting where all registered voters get a mail in ballot sent to them is done in only a handful of states.
Voter fraud is vanishingly small. It almost never happens, and Kayleigh is undeniably a liar, as all of Trump’s spokespersons have been.
James
SHE IS SO UGLY.
Cam
Look, we know from Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee that the only requirement to be a press Secretary is to be a liar.
She qualifies.
Hdtex
@Tripp Philly please refrain from licking Trump’s crusty sphincter here.
Thanks.
Cam
@Tripp Philly
Wow, the right wing troll accounts are still trying “Whataboutism”? Hey genius, you’re AT LEAST supposed to come up with an event from the other side that can somewhat compare to her lies.
Oh right, you couldn’t because nothing compares to the liars Trump has picked for his Secretaries of State.
But nice try.
Mister P
The Republicans are the easiest to fool and boy are they fools.
MikeM
Rrriiiiiiggghhhttt… and I live in New Hampshire where “busloads” of people were brought in from Massachusetts to vote! Of course! You people are amazing! Bowling Green Massacre! Seth Rich! Pizzagate! Q’anon! Jade Helm! You’re an endless source of amusement!
radiooutmike
Yes, whenever election fraud happens in this country, the right that does it.
Chrisk
The Trump administration is really desperate right now to do away with mail in voting.
I’m wondering when they’re going to get the justice department involved or the courts involved to squash it.
Chrisk
You know it’s funny that nearly every single voter fraud case has been a republican doing it. You’d think the Republicans would be more for it just based on that.
Kangol2
Let’s not forget, Don the Con “voted by mail” in this year’s Florida primary.
Did he request an absentee ballot? McEnany claims Don the Con voted by mail because he had to stay at the White House but he was down in Florida during the early voting period and could have voted in person.
From what I’ve read, it sounds like one of his associates allegedly carried Don the Con’s ballot from DC down to Florida and dropped it off or mailed it in or something. Has Don the Con explained this process he engaged in? Did he properly sign off on everything? Does he have proof? If he really cares about vote fraud, particularly voting by mail, why not come clean about the entire process by which he voted by mail?
Is he projecting his own dubious or unlawful actions onto the Democrats, as usual? Not saying he did anything illegal, but why not be transparent about how he voted by mail? Why the obfuscation?
rocknstan
She uses “Democrat” instead of “Democratic,” as all of the right-wingers have been coached to do, lest the phrase, ” Democratic voters” have a positive connotation.
Trump will be residing in the dustbin of history after the election if there is high voter turnout, by mail or other means.
Den
He will never be in the “dustbin of history” (ie: forgotten). He will always be seen as one of the worst examples of corruption and ineptitude among all our presidents.
M K
We have been doing vote-by-mail in Oregon for many years for all elections. It is so easy and convenient; allows people to make their choice as to when to vote over a several week period. O lines to wait in. No time to take off work. No cost for all the polling places. I have not at all heard of even a challenge to results based on fraud. Should be the standard for the country.
Aires the Ram
And you’ve had leftist administrations in Oregon, “elected” by those in the Northwest corner of your state. Hmmmmmm, Imagine that!!
Den
Sorry to inform you, but your imagination is not reality.
And nobody likes a liar, if that is what you are doing (and that is likely the case).
Cam
Ohhhhh, I see, this is the new screename for that same right wing troll account.
So let’s see, the article is about the homophobic Press Secretary who lies, and this troll is desperately pushing conspiracy theories against allowing Americans to vote by mail.
This screename might even be worse at trolling than your other 25 have been. LOL
Cam
@Aires the Ram
And by the “Northwest corner of your state” the right wing troll account means “The area where 76% of the population lives.
This is the perfect example of Republicans. The troll is complaining that 76% of the population shouldn’t be the ones with the majority of the vote. Republicans are anti-American and do not want Americans to vote.
Kangol2
Conservatives do not believe in democracy unless it benefits them. They have engaged in various forms of voter suppression for over a century. I say conservative, since the GOP is now the HQ for right-wingers, but racist social conservatives once heavily populated the Dixiecrat branch of the Democratic party. In both cases, they did not and do not want Black voters to vote, and in the early 20th century and once again now, did not want naturalized immigrants or their children voting either, since in both cases, conservative policies tend to be politically unpopular, and are extremely unpopular now. Let’s not forget that in 2016, many thousands of people were stricken from the voter rolls all over the US (Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, etc.), and that was before Russia got involved in the election, we had two third party candidates, and Comey went after Hillary Clinton right before the election. And Don the Con STILL LOST by over 2.8+ million popular votes!
Mattster
Yeah, the ram’s comment is typical right-wing BS. After Obama won Fox news commentators used this trope constantly, putting up red area of the country and claiming surprise and outrage when “ALL THESE COUNTIES!” voted republican. The problem is they were zeroing in on places like Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, where there are NO PEOPLE. It’s as though they confuse fence posts with voters.
Kangol2
Don’t forget either that Obama won both elections, 2008 and 2012, handily. In both runs, he did not receive a majority of the White vote. Neither time. The GOP sees the handwriting on the wall, and that’s why they are really starting to freak out about Don the Con, blathering about vote fraud, vote-by-mail, you name it. They can’t even keep their stories straight. Unless they suppress as many votes as possible, especially younger voters, working-class and poor voters of all races, and women voters, they could face an electoral wipeout. After what they’ve allowed to happen under three years of misrule by Don the Con, the worst, most inept, most disastrous president in US history, it would be poetic justice.
Aires the Ram
“No People”, so you say. De-coded, that means, those in places we disagree with, which means those who do not live in the dozen or so large urban centers, are not important, do not count, and nobody should pay attention to them, even though they are American citizens and are covered under the Constitution and Bill of Rights just as you self-elected “elitists” are. Typical.
Cam
@Aires the Ram
Translation, you, a right wing troll account are trying to claim it is unfair that 24% of the state of Oregon can’t out vote 76%
In other words, you know that right wing bigots only make up about 1/3 of the country and you are screaming that their votes are more important than the other 2/3 of the country.
You aren’t fooling anybody.
JClark
How does someone as morally bankrupt as this woman graduate from Harvard Law School? Don’t they teach ethics there? This and Trump’s business degree from Wharton make me wonder about the quality of education at America’s supposedly top schools. Being conservative is one thing, but a total disregard for the truth is the antithesis of what a college education should be about.
Kevan1
Trash. Trumpite. Let me know when she gets up off her knees from between his legs. Maybe after she contracts what he has she won’t be such a blind sheep following so blindly and get a brain of her own.
Aires the Ram
Not a word here about policy. Only ad-hominem attacks against those you disagree with politically.
Sounds like life in the typical 4th grade class in grade school. Keep talking, we hear you. You show your ass every day.
Max
her makeup looks time consuming and fraught with fussiness of what she represents: trying to make something look less revolting even when there’s nothing but ugly inside.
The big sky
I think we’ve all seen that episode of the Simpsons – “Oh, my God … the dead have risen … and they’re voting Republican!” or in your case it seems the dead, and their pets will be voting Democrat.
Aires the Ram
Oh Cammie honey, where are you now? I’m sure there’s one or two who miss you? Having a bad day are we?
SteveM
McEnany is just a miserable bitch. She should be told to go and pick the crabs out her twat.