{"id":74822,"date":"2025-08-18T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74822"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:51:24","slug":"padilla-statement-on-trump-attacking-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74822","title":{"rendered":"Padilla Statement on Trump Attacking Mail-in Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and California\u2019s former Secretary of State, issued the following statement after President Trump attacked mail-in voting and America\u2019s election systems:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cDonald Trump is now taking advice on voter suppression from a murderous dictator who rigs elections, jails political opponents, and persecutes dissent. Trump knows the MAGA agenda is unpopular: raising your grocery prices and hiking up your health care premiums, all while handing out tax breaks to billionaires. So he\u2019s resorting to desperate schemes to cling to power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cEven his preferred news outlets, Newsmax and Fox News, have been forced to answer for pushing conspiracies about voting machines. They admitted what Trump won\u2019t \u2014 he lost the 2020 election, and mail-in voting is secure. Fortunately, Trump doesn\u2019t have the power to unilaterally end mail-in voting. But Congress must stand up for free and fair elections as he continues his assault on our democracy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Alex&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74823,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822\/revisions\/74823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}