Donald Trump used a mail-in ballot in a Florida special election a few weeks prior to.
Posted by Americast, Checked
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AmericastSep 16, 2026
Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources, including Palm Beach County voting records reported by Snopes, Politico, and NBC, confirm Trump cast a mail-in ballot in Florida's March 2026 special election for House District 87, which he later confirmed himself.
What was said
… That you're doing something wrong if you do that. Unless, of course, you happen to be president of the United States, because he himself has done this a couple of times, um, and just a few weeks ago, in a Florida special election, he used the postal vote. And this was his justification when he was asked about it by reporters at a White House cabinet meeting. Yeah, you may know. Use the mail and bell. You probably said, Yeah, I did, you know what, because I'm president. President of the United United States. …
Americast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Snopes, rating the claim True, reports that a Palm Beach County voting record confirmed Trump cast a mail-in ballot in the March 2026 special election for Florida House District 87.[1]
Supports. Trump said at a March 26 Cabinet meeting that he voted by mail-in ballot for Florida elections because he was president and could not be there in person.[3][4]
Supports. PolitiFact and Jacksonville.com report Palm Beach County records showing Trump's ballot was received March 15 and marked as voted by mail for the March 24 special election.[5][6]
Supports. The White House did not dispute that Trump voted by mail, describing it as a non-story tied to his residency in Palm Beach.[2][5]
Context. Later reporting shows Trump also voted by mail in Florida's August 2026 Republican primary and voted in person on October 24, 2026; these are separate elections and do not alter the March claim.[7][8][9]
Sources
9 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 tier 2, 5 not rated
- 1Did Trump vote by mail in Florida election after years of ...snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2White House defends Trump's ability to vote by mail | Reutersreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Trump explains why he cast a mail ballot in Florida's electionnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Trump justifies voting by mail-in ballot in Florida special electionwashingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Trump equated mail-in voting with cheating. That’s absurdapi.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Trump calls it 'mail-in cheating,' but he voted in by ...jacksonville.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Floridapolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 8Trump votes early and in person in Florida ahead of midterm electionsrmb.reuters.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Trump votes in person in Florida after using mail-in ballot ...usatoday.com · not rated · cited for: context
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