Donald Trump's desperation continues to grow with the release of each new poll as results show Trump and the Republican Party falling farther out of favor with the American public. But Marc Elias, one of democracy's greatest legal champions in the Trump era, believes at least one of Trump's desperation tactics, his attack on mail-in voting, will fail at the Supreme Court. Elias joins Jen Psaki to talk about why.
A county elections supervisor in the state said the Postal Service initially rejected the ballots envelope he was planning to use over a 0.014-inch discrepancy.
Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
As the Trump administration takes aim at mail-in voting, a new audit finds that during this year's primary elections the Post Office failed to properly handle some ballots. ProPublica Reporter Jen Fifield shares more details on the report and joins Ali Vitali, along with Fordham University Professor Christina Greer, to discuss more.
The findings come as the Supreme Court considers whether to allow the Postal Service to follow new rules set forth in President Donald Trump's executive order that requires states to provide the USPS with their voter rolls so the USPS can verify if the ballots are being sent to those who are eligible to vote.
American Postal Workers Union President Jonathan Smith calls out the hypocrisy of President Trump attacking mail-in ballots while using them personally. Smith defended the "integrity" of postal workers who he says have protected the “sacred” right to vote for more than 250 years, telling Erin Burnett, "we take pride in our democratic responsibility."
