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President Donald Trump encouraged all Floridians to vote by mail Tuesday, just a week after he told Axios interviewer Jonathan Swan that mail-in voting on a large scale results in "massive cheating."
"There is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating," Trump said during the July 28 interview, which aired on HBO Monday. He referred to recent efforts by state leaders to encourage vote-by-mail during the coronavirus pandemic as a "new phenomenon" and clarified, "It's new in terms of the kinds of millions and millions of ballots. They've never done anything like this."
On Tuesday, the president's opinion appeared to have shifted—at least for Florida voters.