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Trump Keeps Criticizing Universal Vote By Mail. But The Nation Isn't Doing That

Trump also claimed that Republicans hate vote-by-mail, despite a recent poll showing half of all Republicans support allowing all registered voters access to a mail ballot.
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on July 30.

President Trump's claims about why November's election could be marred and illegitimate shifted again Thursday, after he walked back his desire to potentially delay voting.

Trump falsely claimed that the U.S. is sending out "hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots" and also repeated a conspiracy theory about foreign countries counterfeiting ballots.

"We are sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots,"

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