.MaddowBlog: Trump expects 'the most corrupt election' in the US history in 2020
Part of the Republican plan, obviously, is to fight tooth and nail to make it more difficult for Americans to cast ballots in the fall, even as the coronavirus threat lingers .In his speech in Arizona, for example, Trump declared,"They went to the polls and voted during World War II; we can safely go to the polls and vote during COVID-19." If the war were a contagious virus, this might even make sense.
He also raised the prospect of roving bands of ballot-thieves targeting mailboxes and accosting mail carriers -- as if this were a serious possibility. The president, aware of the fact that he wants to block a voting method he uses, went on to say,"Absentee ballots are fine. Like I live in the White House, and if I can't get to Florida, or you live wherever you live, and you can't." In reality, Trump voted by mail earlier this year despite driving by his Florida voting precinct.
Trump even claimed that after the 2016 elections, California"agreed" that"like 1 million or 1.5 million" illegal ballots were cast. That simplyI'm not in a position to say with any confidence whether the president actually believes any of the nonsense he's peddling, but it's likely he feels justified in lying: after all, as Trump sees it, his own re-election bid will unfold during"the most corrupt election in the history of our country.
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