“Democratic voters who have requested mail ballots — and returned them — greatly outnumber Republicans so far in key battleground states, causing alarm among GOP party leaders and strategists that President Trump’s attacks on mail voting could be hurting the party’s prospects to retain the White House and the Senate this year. Of the more than 9 million voters who requested mail ballots through Monday in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa, the five battleground states where such data is publicly available, 52 percent were Democrats. Twenty-eight percent were Republicans, and 20 percent were unaffiliated.”

“‘It’s astronomical,’ said one Republican strategist involved in Senate races who said he was ‘horrified’ by the discrepancy and, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal concerns. ‘You see these numbers in a state like North Carolina, and how can you not be concerned?’ The issue is of such concern that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has twice met with Trump to urge him to stop talking about mail balloting ‘imprecisely,’ a strategist said. McConnell has told others he is concerned that the president’s rhetoric could discourage Republicans from voting by mail. And former RNC chairman and former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus has repeatedly told others that the mail-voting gap could be the GOP’s biggest challenge this fall” – Washington Post.