Overview
- Palm Beach County records show President Trump requested a mail ballot in late July and returned it on Aug. 13 for the Aug. 18 Florida Republican primary.
- White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales defended the vote as allowed under exceptions for travel, illness, military or disability and called the coverage a non‑story.
- This is not new: reporting and county records confirm Trump also used mail ballots in 2020 and in a Florida special election earlier this year.
- The vote comes as the administration presses the SAVE America Act and seeks court approval for an executive order that would sharply limit mail voting, a push that has been blocked in lower courts and is under appeal.
- Public-facing Palm Beach County searches showed the president’s voting record marked as protected from disclosure, a difference that raised questions about transparency and could fuel political debate over who can access vote-by-mail records ahead of the midterms.