Faced with the imminent presidential elections that the United States faces on November 3, in the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump is once again creating a straw man: the vote by mail. After refusing to authorize the budget of 25,000 million dollars to modernize the public postal service (USPS), the president now attacks this voting modality, arguing that it would lead to electoral fraud: "millions of ballots will be printed by foreign countries," he wrote recently on Twitter. Following the uproar caused by the reelection candidate in recent days, comedian Sarah Cooper, known for parodying him on TikTok, appeared at the Democratic convention with this message: “I have heard Donald Trump say nonsense over and over again, but nothing it is more dangerous for our democracy than banning voting by mail in the middle of a pandemic ”.
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020In a video in which the comedian imitates one of his recent speeches, in which the president goes so far as to suggest that by voting by mail there is a risk that “the postmen will falsify the ballots they collect from the mailboxes,” Cooper calls no letting Trump "snatch" anyone's right to vote. And she insists that this attack by the president is due more to "she knows she cannot win fairly" than to any other reason.