Daily Beast: “White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s continued push to delegitimize mail-in voting, brushing off CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s insistence that there’s no evidence of ‘widespread voter fraud’ by retorting that ‘there’s no evidence that there’s not, either.’ Tapper noted that despite Team Trump’s loud criticism towards vote-by-mail, both the president and First Lady have requested mail-in ballots this year and at least a half-dozen White House officials and Cabinet members have voted by mail in the past.”
“‘Can you tell me the difference between voting by mail in Florida and, say, voting by mail in Pennsylvania? What’s the difference?’ Tapper wondered aloud. While admitting he couldn’t explain the difference, Meadows went ahead and claimed that universal mail-in voting would leave voters ‘disenfranchised’ as ‘millions of ballots’ could be sent to ’empty mailboxes’ due to out-of-date voter rolls. Tapper, meanwhile, pointed out that there are several states that have conducted vote-by-mail for years with little to no problem. ‘But there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud,’ Tapper added after Meadows reiterated his concern with voter rolls. ‘There’s no evidence that there’s not either. That’s the definition of fraud, Jake,’ the chief of staff shot back, causing the CNN anchor to do a double-take.”