The NY Times actually tells it like it is for once:
President Trump on Tuesday stepped up efforts to promote his false claims of widespread voting fraud, signing an executive order of questionable constitutionality seeking to create a national list of citizens that would determine voting eligibility and restrict mail ballots
Mr. Trump acknowledged that the order, which comes as a bill he has been pushing to restrict mail voting has languished in Congress, could face legal hurdles.
“I believe it’s foolproof,” Mr. Trump said about the executive order before signing it in the Oval Office. “And maybe it’ll be tested. Maybe it won’t.”
It will be tested so it likely won’t have any impact before 2026. But Trump wants something to blame for the “stolen” election in November and this is part of it. And there’s at least a fair chance it will pass muster with the Supremes when it finally gets there, so 28 is on the menu.
I will never understand why Republicans are signing on to this:
[W]hile Trump may think that Democrats are voting by mail in higher numbers than Republicans, a data analysis by the New York Times found that despite Trump’s attempt to disparage the practice, Republicans made almost universal gains in mail voting during the 2024 election — including, the report notes, in “battleground states like Pennsylvania, red states like Florida and blue states like Connecticut.”
Do they really think only Democrats vote by mail? It’s ridiculous. Trump is an imbecile but the rest of them can’t all be that dumb.