In an unhinged briefing, the president insisted that mail-in voting is corrupt and that Democrats wanted to move the election to hurt the GOP.
There is at least one exception to absentee voting being corrupt, Trump was forced to admit: himself. After his tirade against the practice, a reporter reminded him that he’d recently voted absentee in Florida’s election.
“I can vote by mail because I’m allowed to,” he retorted, hinging his argument on him being an out-of-state voter. Though if his theory about mail-in ballots being fraudulent were true, that detail wouldn’t matter. “Because I happen to be in the White House and I won’t be able to go to Florida to vote,” he continued. “Let me just say, there’s a big difference between somebody that’s out of state and does a ballot and everything ― sealed. certified and everything else. You see what you have to do with the certifications.”
He then made a strange claim about in-state absentee voters rigging the election by gathering by the thousands in people’s homes. “You get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody’s living room,” Trump said, “signing ballots all over the place.”Everything you need to know
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