At the same time that President Donald Trump has been vehemently opposing voting by mail, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump voiced a Republican National Committee robocall informing supporters that it could be done "safely and securely," CNN reported on Wednesday.
The call was sent in April to back California Republican Mike Garcia in a May U.S. House special election, which was conducted almost entirely by mail after Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring every voter to be mailed a ballot due to the coronavirus pandemic and the dangers of casting a ballot at a polling station.
A copy of the call was found by CNN's KFile archived on Nomorobo, an application that blocks robocalls and tracks them online.
"Nancy Pelosi and liberal Democrats are counting on you to sit on the sidelines this election, but you can prove them wrong," Lara Trump said in the April robocall sponsored by the RNC. "You can safely and securely vote for Mike Garcia by returning your mail-in ballot by May 12."
CNN's KFile also found other robocalls, including one in the voice of Donald Trump Jr. telling supporters, "Don't let us down, remember to return your ballot now. Make your vote count for Republican Mike Garcia and get it in the mail by Tuesday, May 12."
Garcia won the special election.
The president has since March consistently opposed attempts to boost voting by mail during the pandemic, tweeting as recently as Friday that "Mail-In Ballots will lead to massive electoral fraud and a rigged 2020 Election."
RNC spokesman Michael Ahrens told CNN's KFile that the GOP opposes Democrats' efforts to get rid of "existing safeguards," saying that automatically mailing ballots would result in inactive and dead voters receiving them.
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