6/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: [Audience question: “The big concern I’ve got is: How are you going to make sure that the election is fair and free from fraudulent absentee votes and mail-in ballots?”] “I think it’s the most important question I’ll be asked, because it’s a great question. So now we have a mail-in thing. And you see California — he’s sending out millions and millions of ballots. Where are they going? Where aren’t they going? Is the postman going to hand them out? Are they going to take them out of the mailboxes?…

You go to foreign countries — you know, they keep talking, “Oh, Russia and China and this…” Especially China, not Russia. Especially China. Are they going to print millions of ballots using the exact same paper, using the exact same machines? And are they going print ballots and then hand them in? And then, all of a sudden — it’s the biggest risk we have: the mail-in ballot, not so much the absentee ballot. Because an absentee — like, I’m in White House, and I have to vote in Florida, et cetera, et cetera…

We went through World War One, and we voted. We went through World War Two, and we voted. And now we have a virus. And by that time, it’ll be less and less. Why aren’t we going to vote? People want to vote.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Fox News Town Hall | Green Bay, WI,” whitehouse.gov, June 25, 2020