Trump casts doubt on mail voting. His campaign promotes it

While President Donald Trump claims mail-in voting is ripe for fraud and cheaters, his reelection campaign and state allies are scrambling to launch operations meant to help their voters cast ballots in the mail.

Through its partnership with the Republican National Committee, Trump's campaign is training volunteers on the ins and outs of mail-in and absentee voting and sending supporters texts and emails reminding them to send in their ballots.

In Wisconsin, where a special congressional election is scheduled on Tuesday, the Trump campaign last week blasted out a reminder via Twitter: Request an absentee ballot by 5 pm TONIGHT.

In another election, the message might have been viewed as standard get-out-the-vote work.

But in the age of the coronavirus, it points to a problem for Republicans: How do they follow Trump's lead and oppose mail-in voting without falling behind Democrats who are embracing the practice as the safest way to vote during a pandemic?