President Donald Trump urged Republicans to vote in the 2026 midterms, even encouraging them to use a method he has repeatedly criticized. Trump wrote “Republicans must WIN” in the caption of a video he recently posted on Truth Social, and he listed mail ballots alongside early voting and Election Day voting as ways to do it.
He pointed supporters to a website, swampthevoteusa.com, for details on how and where to vote. He also told people in states that offer early voting not to hold off until November. In the video, Trump said, “The 2026 midterm elections are upon us, and I’m asking every patriot to get out and vote. This is one of the most important elections of our lives, so to learn how and where to vote, go online to swampthevoteusa.com.”
“If your state has early voting, do not wait. Go out and vote. Vote early, vote by mail, or vote in person on election day, November 3rd, so we can defeat the radical left Dumocrats in a midterm victory that is too big to rig. We’ve got to beat the Dumocrats. I call them Dumocrats because their policies are so bad,” he continued.
A sharp turn from Trump’s recent mail-ballot attacks
The Saturday message treats mail voting as one option among others. That is a marked shift from the stance Trump took only weeks earlier, when he signed an executive order aimed at restricting voting by mail and then criticized the Supreme Court after it struck the order down. The shift comes as Trump has renewed his appeal to the Supreme Court to restrict mail voting ahead of the November midterms, calling the restrictions commonsense measures.
He accused the court of giving Democrats a license to cheat. Just over two weeks ago, he wrote on Truth Social, “Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’ which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.” His attacks on the court have not always won him allies, as in a major twist when conservative Supreme Court justices refused to stand with Trump over his mail voting overhaul.
The New York Times reported that Saturday’s post “was the latest contortion from Mr. Trump on mail balloting.” The paper said he has spent years promoting unfounded claims that mail voting is rife with fraud, and that his push to limit the practice has been blocked by lawmakers and the courts.
In July, Trump said, “mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.” The Times added that there is no evidence of widespread fraud in mail voting.
Even so, Trump still casts his own Florida ballot by mail. He is now telling other Republicans they can do the same, at least for this cycle, while also urging early voting and in-person voting on November 3rd. The video framed the choice as a way to beat candidates he calls Dumocrats, a label he said he uses because their policies are so bad.
Published: Oct 4, 2026 06:45 am