It is not safe to go to the polls to vote this November, according to House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., rejecting President Donald Trump's urging Americans to vote in person amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
"He is actually signing a death warrant for a lot of people," Clyburn told CNN, adding calls for universal mail-in voting and more funding for the untimely financial and management struggles of the U.S. Postal Service.
"He ought not be doing this," Clyburn added of Trump's reorganization efforts of the USPS to help it stop losing massive amounts of money as other private shipping companies like FedEx and the United Parcel Service thrive.
The emergency funding for the USPS is among the issues stuck in congressional gridlock over the latest coronavirus stimulus package.
Trump sought for added spending to be specific to the global coronavirus pandemic, rejecting efforts to pump money into the failed mismanagement of the USPS as an effort to expand universal mail-in balloting and introduce potential election fraud. Trump has said he would approve the USPS bailout if Americans are approved for more stimulus checks.
Mass mailing ballots to everyone on bloated voter rolls is vehemently opposed by the president. Democrats have fought Republicans for years on removing inactive voters from voter rolls. Those inactives would get a ballot mailed to them without it to have to be requested, as is done with absentee balloting. Trump has warned those ballots can be signed and turned in by anyone, unverified.
Democrats have held on to the conspiracy theory that voter verification is way Republicans might suppress voters, particularly minorities. Joe Biden is pulling 88% support from African Americans in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Safety amid the coronavirus pandemic is a concern for many, but there was a sign this weekend the dangers might be waning. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the world's active serious and critical COVID-19 cases fell below 1%, according to the Worldometer data. Experts have frequently pointed to that data point as lagging the COVID-19 fatality rate.
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