"We're going on to win a tremendous election in November, to be exact November 3 in North Carolina," Trump told supporters who'd dialed into a telephone rally. Election experts have told CNN there is no real difference between absentee voting and no-excuse mail voting and the two are "essentially the same thing." On Monday, campaign surrogate and Trump son Eric Trump encouraged supporters to vote absentee as well, telling them at a bus tour stop, "In Florida you have an honest system, so vote absentee. Calls for supporters to vote absentee may belie a larger concern amongst Republicans -- that they trail, significantly, in absentee ballot requests. In North Carolina , any registered voter can request a mail-in absentee ballot, and no excuse is required to vote absentee by mail.

Source: CNN August 12, 2020 19:18 UTC