Gardner rips vote by mail despite Colorado’s success — all to appease Trump
Today, as President Trump admitted on Fox News that he wants to weaken the United States Postal Service to stop vote by mail, a new report emerged showing Senator Cory Gardner singing a similar tune — despite being elected by mail in ballots in 2014.
Westword reports:
In a transparent effort to try to suppress participation in the November 2020 election, President Donald Trump has spent weeks castigating mail-in voting with completely bogus claims of potential fraud and more — and that puts Cory Gardner in a tough spot. After all, the Republican Senator from Colorado was elected in 2014 through balloting largely done by mail — yet the only way he’s got a chance against a tough challenger, former Governor John Hickenlooper, is if he remains in the good graces of Trump and the national GOP, which has been spending big money on hysterical attack ads.
During recent interviews, Gardner has said positive things about the way Colorado has conducted mail-in voting, and he did so again, more or less, during a forum not meant for public consumption: an August 5 telephone fundraiser. But in a transcript from the event obtained by Westword, he also sought to cast doubts on a nationwide application of the process amid the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that should keep The Donald happy, since his references to heavy-handedness coming out of “Washington, D.C.” are explicitly aimed at Congress.
Read the story in Westword HERE
Meanwhile, John Hickenlooper, who implemented Colorado’s successful vote by mail system in 2013, continues to call out Trump’s lies and dangerous threats to hold USPS funding hostage to cripple vote by mail.
