"The Damage Has Been Done": Historian Says Trump's Postmaster Has Undermined Faith in 2020 Election

The battle over the future of the United States Postal Service is intensifying, with a record number of mail-in ballots expected to be cast in the 2020 presidential election, and Democrats and Republicans locked in a fight over the future of the agency. Historian Philip Rubio, who teaches at North Carolina A&T State University and worked as a mail carrier for two decades before that, says decades of political interference have caused a manufactured crisis" at the U.S. Postal Service. The damage has been done," Rubio says of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's changes. I think he's discouraged a lot of voters who were hoping to vote by mail to vote safely and securely because of the pandemic."