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Title: WH press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 16, 2026, 01:10:36 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 16, 2026, 01:10:36 PM
White House press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda in Fox News appearance
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-transgender-save-act
Christopher Wiggins (16 March 2026)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt used a Monday morning appearance on Fox News morning show, Fox & Friends, to promote the Trump administration's push for the SAVE America Act, describing the Republican-backed proposal as a package of election restrictions with added culture war priorities that the president wants quickly delivered to his desk.
"The president has made it very clear. He wants that bill on his desk here at the White House as soon as possible," she said.
Leavitt characterized the proposal as "five of the most common sense proposals that any party has ever put forward," then listed them in a rapid fire sequence: stricter voter identification rules, proof of citizenship requirements to vote, restrictions on mail-in ballots, bans on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and prohibitions on transgender women and girls competing in women's sports.
She said that mail ballots "create a tremendous amount of fraud in our electoral system." That's not true. She then pivoted and said, "Cannot transgender mutilate our young children. We need a ban on those procedures and surgeries. And then of course, no men in women's sports."
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-transgender-save-act
Christopher Wiggins (16 March 2026)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt used a Monday morning appearance on Fox News morning show, Fox & Friends, to promote the Trump administration's push for the SAVE America Act, describing the Republican-backed proposal as a package of election restrictions with added culture war priorities that the president wants quickly delivered to his desk.
"The president has made it very clear. He wants that bill on his desk here at the White House as soon as possible," she said.
Leavitt characterized the proposal as "five of the most common sense proposals that any party has ever put forward," then listed them in a rapid fire sequence: stricter voter identification rules, proof of citizenship requirements to vote, restrictions on mail-in ballots, bans on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and prohibitions on transgender women and girls competing in women's sports.
She said that mail ballots "create a tremendous amount of fraud in our electoral system." That's not true. She then pivoted and said, "Cannot transgender mutilate our young children. We need a ban on those procedures and surgeries. And then of course, no men in women's sports."
Title: Re: WH press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda
Post by: Lori Dee on March 16, 2026, 02:27:42 PM
Post by: Lori Dee on March 16, 2026, 02:27:42 PM
We need laws to ban riders on pending legislation.
Voting bills should discuss voting and nothing else.
Spending bills should discuss spending and nothing else.
Voting bills should discuss voting and nothing else.
Spending bills should discuss spending and nothing else.
Title: Re: WH press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda
Post by: Lori Dee on March 24, 2026, 11:01:05 AM
Post by: Lori Dee on March 24, 2026, 11:01:05 AM
Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'
The president cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to county records.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-casts-mail-ballot-florida-calls-method-cheating-rcna264762
NBC News - Jane C. Timm
March 23, 2026, 7:59 PM MDT
President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent.
"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all," Trump said Monday.
Public records indicate his mail ballot was received and counted by election officials in Palm Beach County, where he is registered to vote, though the records don't detail how it was delivered to election officials.
It's a familiar refrain — and action — from Trump, who has often criticized mail voting as rife with fraud. He has used such rhetoric to push a massive elections overhaul bill in Congress called the SAVE America Act.
The bill wouldn't end mail voting, as he has suggested in public comments.
"As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel — but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it's highly susceptible to fraud...," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said in a statement.
Trump was in Palm Beach over the weekend; early voting ran through Sunday.
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Rules for Thee, But Not For Me.
The president cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to county records.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-casts-mail-ballot-florida-calls-method-cheating-rcna264762
NBC News - Jane C. Timm
March 23, 2026, 7:59 PM MDT
President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent.
"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all," Trump said Monday.
Public records indicate his mail ballot was received and counted by election officials in Palm Beach County, where he is registered to vote, though the records don't detail how it was delivered to election officials.
It's a familiar refrain — and action — from Trump, who has often criticized mail voting as rife with fraud. He has used such rhetoric to push a massive elections overhaul bill in Congress called the SAVE America Act.
The bill wouldn't end mail voting, as he has suggested in public comments.
"As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel — but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it's highly susceptible to fraud...," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said in a statement.
Trump was in Palm Beach over the weekend; early voting ran through Sunday.
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Rules for Thee, But Not For Me.