US President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that if the US used mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election, it would be „the most rigged election in…
During a Coronavirus Task Force press conference at the White House on Thursday, Trump took aim at mail-in ballots, saying if they are used on a wide scale in the national election on November 3, it would cause immense problems and open the electoral process up for interference and fraud.
„Stupid people don’t know it,“ he later added. “Our country will be a laughing stock all over the world… We’re asking for a lot of trouble.“
Trump’s comments came in response to a question about comments he made on Twitter earlier in the day that suggested the election might be postponed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We want to have an election. I’d love to see voter ID but this is the opposite of voter ID,“ Trump continued.
