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‘Wish I wasn’t defending that’: Ex-GOP gov lets the mask slip on Trump’s ballot flip
A former Republican governor let the mask slip on CNN as he defended the president for making a surprising move.
President Donald Trump reportedly voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary despite his repeated claims that mail-in ballots are "cheating" and "fraud." Chris Sununu, the former Republican governor of New Hampshire, attempted to defend Trump's claims during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with host Dana Bash, and inadvertently let the mask slip about his own feelings on Trump's argument.
Bash played a mashup of Trump's previous attacks on mail-in voting and asked Sununu to respond.
"Optics matter," Sununu said. "I support the president, but this is definitely a bad move. I'm very much against mail-in voting myself, and I think it's rife with a whole lot of problems. We don't have it in New Hampshire. We have the highest voter turnout in the country. So no, you can't go around railing on mail-in voting and then go ahead and do it yourself. It kind of deflates the argument a little bit. So, [I] wish I wasn't defending that on CNN tonight."
Bill de Blasio, the former Democratic mayor of New York City, who was also on the panel, chimed in that Trump's attacks on mail-in voting could hurt his chances during the midterms.
"The bottom line is these kinds of hypocrisies, this kind of personal obsession, whether it's the ballroom, mail-in voting, [or] the Qatari jet, he's just losing," de Blasio said. "He's losing his audience more and more, and I don't know how they're going to change course between now and the midterms at this point."
