Republicans lose a local byelection in Palm Beach, the official home of the US president. Trump jumped over his own shadow to take part in the election.
March 25, 2026, 04:39March 25, 2026, 04:39
Renzo Ruf, Washington
Donald Trump is an opponent of postal voting. And the American president likes to complain about voting and voting by mail. Most recently on Monday in Memphis. During a tirade against his political opponent, Trump said: Voting by post opens the door to fraud. Naturally, it sounded quicker in English: “Mail-in voting is mail-in cheating,” said the American president.
The Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the official residence of President Donald Trump.Image: keystone
What Trump didn’t reveal in Memphis: He himself is a committed postal voter. The nearly 80-year-old president most recently cast his vote by mail in recent days when he took part in a local election at his official residence in Florida. You can find out with a simple search on the Palm Beach County website. “You voted by Mail Ballot,” it says when you start a query under the name Donald Trump. A search using the names of his wife Melania (55) and his 20-year-old son Barron was also successful; they also voted by mail.
Now that’s actually not objectionable. After all, Trump is often in Washington these days because of his work and not in his ostentatious property on South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. Last weekend, of all days, he was at his club Mar-a-Lago. He also spent a lot of time on his golf course in West Palm Beach. A look at the district’s website shows that he could have easily stopped by a polling station on the way to his golf course on Saturday or Sunday – if he is really that afraid of election fraud. In any case, a voting location would have been open ten minutes by car from the Trump International Golf Club.
Democrat will represent Trump in the state parliament in the future
The White House doesn’t understand the excitement. The story is not worth mentioning, a spokeswoman told the NBC television station, which first drew attention to Trump’s postal vote. Finally, the President repeatedly says that he supports exceptional rules for people who cannot go to the polls for medical or professional reasons.
Of course, the county database doesn’t show who the Trumps voted for. However, Trump supported Republican candidate Jon Maples in the byelection for a seat in the Florida state legislature. He lost on Tuesday to his Democratic challenger Emily Gregory, a political novice — even though the swank resort of Palm Beach has been a Republican stronghold for several years. Maples’ gap to Gregory was just over 2 percentage points.
The Trumps will be represented in the Florida state legislature by a Democrat until the next election date in November. This will annoy the president to no end. (aargauerzeitung.ch)