Mailer featuring Donald Trump urges Arizona Republicans to vote by mail ... wait, what?

Arizona Republicans must not know WHAT to do. Their heads are spinning.

Donald Trump rails against mail-in voting, yet the Arizona Republican Party is sending out mailers asking Republicans here to vote by mail. (I received notices about this from several readers.)

Say what?

Trump has proclaimed that mail-in ballots are rife with fraud, and he is attempting to dismantle the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to handle ballots in November.

On the other hand, he has requested a mail-in ballot for himself and his wife, AND … he (by way of the state GOP) is urging Arizona Republicans to VOTE BY MAIL.

What’s a GOP voter to do?

Why sabotage the postal service?

Perhaps the GOP faithful are beginning to recognize that what Trump says about mail-in voting is a bunch of baloney.

Perhaps Trump himself is beginning to realize that a state like Arizona, in which roughly 80% of us vote by mail, has consistently elected Republicans to the state’s top offices and to the Legislature.

Or perhaps he doesn’t know WHAT he’s talking about.

Right now, even the old adage that goes – Do as I say, not as I do – doesn’t apply. Because Trump is doing and saying BOTH things. He’s saying mail-in ballots are bad, yet urging Republicans to vote by mail. And he’s requesting a mail-in ballot for himself.

How about this? How about Arizona Republicans not only request their mail-in ballots but contact their spineless representatives in Congress and have them urge the president to quit messing with the postal service?

Otherwise, the president and his chicken-hearted sycophants in Congress will be undermining the very system that put most of them in office.

And, in the process, suppressing the votes of all those Republicans in Arizona who were urged to get mail-in ballots.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.