Fact check: Trump’s mail vote

President Donald Trump said this week he generally disapproves of mail voting, but it was OK for him to vote by mail in Florida’s presidential primary last month “because I’m allowed to.”

He said he was in a special category because he was out of state, away from Palm Beach County, which he declared his residence last year and where he registered to vote. “I happen to be in the White House and I won’t be able to go to Florida to vote.”

That’s not quite accurate. Florida law, enacted by Republicans, allows any registered voter to choose a mail ballot.

And Trump could have voted in person. He was in Palm Beach County on the on March 7 and 8, the first weekend of early voting for the March 17 primary. He left the county on Monday morning March 9.

He spent time that Saturday and Sunday at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach – across the street from a library where early voting was offered all day long on both days.