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Brendan Farrington has been looking for the Associated Press at the understandable uptick in requests to vote by mail in today’s Florida primary.
He spoke to Catharine Skipp, who voted by mail for the first time because she has largely confined herself to home during the pandemic. She told him she also had another new experience: her ballot was challenged.
Talking of Trump attacks, there’s a new Trump campaign ad this week which questions the mental capacity of Joe Biden. It’s a well-trodden path for a Trump campaign, that repeatedly raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s health in 2016.
The ad mixes clips of Biden speaking from a few years ago, with more recent clips, and is called “What happend to Joe Biden” to imply some kind of decline.
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