President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to push a debunked conspiracy theory surrounding fraud within mail-in-voting.
“The Unsolicited Mail In Ballot Scam is a major threat to our Democracy, & the Democrats know it,” Trump declared. “Almost all recent elections using this system, even though much smaller & with far fewer Ballots to count, have ended up being a disaster. Large numbers of missing Ballots & Fraud!”
The Unsolicited Mail In Ballot Scam is a major threat to our Democracy, & the Democrats know it. Almost all recent elections using this system, even though much smaller & with far fewer Ballots to count, have ended up being a disaster. Large numbers of missing Ballots & Fraud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2020
Last month, the president again floated the idea November 3rd could be rigged adding, “You can’t take millions of ballots, send them haphazardly all over the country, or all over a state, and expect it to come out properly.
“By the way, absentee is great, it’s been working for a long time like in Florida. Absentee, you request and it comes in, and then you send it back. Absentee is great, but universal is going to be a disaster the likes of which our country has never seen.”
He continued, “It’ll end up being a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome. They’ll have to do it again, and nobody wants that. And I don’t want that.”
Currently, former vice president Joe Biden leads Trump by 7.5%, according to RealClearPolitics national polling average.
Originally published: 2020-09-12 17:29:05