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In the same tweet, Trump defended Florida’s mail-in voting system for the second time in two days and encouraged his voters there to send their ballots in. Both Florida and Nevada have historically been viewed as battleground states in presidential elections; Trump lost Nevada in 2016, however, while he won Florida.
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Trump has also voted by mail himself, as recently as the Florida primary in March, despite the fact that he was in the area at the time and drove past early voting locations, according to the Washington Post.Speaking with NPR on Tuesday, Sisolak, a Democrat, defended the expansion of mail-in voting as “another option for people to exercise so we can get as much participation as we can.”“It's my job to ensure that people don't have to choose between their health and the ability to vote, exercise their right to vote, and that's what we intend to do in November,” Sisolak told NPR.Cover: President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)