GOP leaders in the House and Senate have publicly and privately called for more resources for mail-in voting -- and hope the President changes his tune. "You'll have tremendous fraud if you do these mail-in ballots," Trump told reporters. "Now, absentee ballots are OK, because absentee ballots -- you have to get applications. Trump has been railing about mail-in voting for months as states expand vote-by-mail options, repeating numerous false claims about voter fraud. Democrats outpaced Republicans on absentee voting, but they had a competitive Senate primary, which the GOP did not.

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 00:00 UTC