CNBC: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the country must move toward vote by mail, setting up a fight with Trump

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that America needs to move toward a “vote by mail” system to give citizens a safe way to elect their lawmakers while the coronavirus makes it dangerous to congregate.

“In terms of the elections, I think we’ll probably be moving to vote by mail,” Pelosi said in an interview on MSNBC. “That’s why we wanted to have more resources in this third bill that just was signed by the president, to get those resources to the states to facilitate the reality of life: that we are going to have to have more vote by mail.”

Her position is in direct conflict with that of President Donald Trump who on Monday warned that voting by mail would hurt the Republican Party.

Pelosi suggested that a vote-by-mail system would not damage “the integrity of the election system.”
Already, more than a dozen states and U.S. territories have either postponed their primaries or moved to a vote-by-mail system amid the pandemic.

But Trump in a television interview on Monday dismissed efforts to push for a vote-by-mail system and other reforms to make voting easier amid the pandemic. He said these types of reforms would damage the Republican Party.

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said on Fox News. “They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the country must move toward vote by mail, setting up a fight with Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that America's election systems will likely move toward "vote by mail" to give citizens a safe way to elect their lawmakers amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

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