WH Press Secretary Voted By Mail In Every FL Election In The Past Decade

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing at the White House on May 12, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who has vehemently defended President Trump’s baseless tirade against mail-in voting initiatives, reportedly voted by mail repeatedly in the past decade.

McEnany cast an absentee ballot in every Florida election she participated in since 2010, according to a Tampa Bay Times report on Wednesday. Much like President Trump, McEnany most recently voted by mail during Florida’s 2020 presidential primary.

When asked for comment about her vote-by-mail-history, McEnany said in a statement shared with TPM on Wednesday that absentee voting “has the word absent in it for a reason.”

“It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person,” McEnany said, before doubling down on the President’s recent assertions that mail-in voting initiatives are part of a “Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus,” lead to voter fraud and is “a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.”

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh defended McEnany’s absentee voting history in a Wednesday afternoon tweet.

McEnany’s own voting record came under scrutiny as the President continues to assert an unfounded claim that voting-by-mail leads to voter fraud. During a White House briefing last week, McEnany said that Trump — who officially changed his residence to Florida late last year — votes by mail because “the President is, after all, the President, which means he’s here in Washington.”

Shortly after Twitter attached a “get the facts” disclaimer to Trump’s false tweets about voting by mail on Tuesday afternoon, McEnany bolstered the President’s war against mail-in-voting in a tweet thread.

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  1. Avatar for danny danny says:

    She looks like a department store mannequin just realizing that her wherever is missing.

  2. Cockholster knows for fact that mail-in voter fraud occurs. How? By committing it, of course.

    You see, he lists Grift-a-Lotto as his primary residence. But local zoning laws say Grift-a-Lotto can’t be a residence because it’s a club. It can be one or the other but not both. Thus, he commits voter fraud every time he mails in his ballot.

    (Of course, he could always close the club to come into compliance.)


    Note to Murtaugh, who wrote “This conflates absentee-by-mail with mail-every-registered-voter-a-ballot.”

    You’re right. And like your pathological liar of a candidate, it too never happened. The SoSs sent absentee voting applications NOT absentee ballots, you fetid piece of shit.

  3. Conclusion: Peroxide leaches into the brain.

  4. Why of course she did. :roll_eyes:

    But she’s not a democrat so she’s expeempt as is every other toadie in this administration whose motto is…

    Do As I Say, Not As I Do

  5. I got my Stimulus check by mail.

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