evidence: Rules for voting by mail became a major issue during the 2020 presidential campaign, when a massive influx of voters cast ballots remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of that election, Trump and his allies cast doubt on the integrity of mail ballots and urged his supporters to vote in person. After the election, his campaign sued to stop the counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania even though nearly 1 million statewide votes had not yet been tallied. Trump and his attorneys baselessly claimed there was widespread cheating in mail ballots that helped cost him the election. Since 2020, Republicans have continued to publicly rail against mail-in ballots, even as they have launched an initiative aimed at getting their voter base to use every available option to cast ballots, including voting by mail. Trump released a social media video last week encouraging his supporters to vote by mail. But several days earlier, at a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told the crowd "the elections are so screwed up" and "we want to get rid of mail-in voting." In recent days, he’s amplified his attacks on elections, threatening "long term prison sentences" to those responsible for "cheating and skullduggery" in the 2020 election.