The Trump campaign said corruption is entrenched in states where votes are being counted, accusing “clubhouse governors” of trying to determine the presidential election results.
Justin Clark, the Trump 2020 deputy campaign manager who is overseeing the campaign’s legal challenges, said state capitals are looking like the Washington swamp.
“The swamp doesn’t just exist in Washington, D.C. It exists in state capitals in Phoenix, Arizona, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, all around the country,” he said.
In Nevada, a Trump official claimed on Thursday that dead people had voted, as well as people who had moved out of a county because of the coronavirus, violating state law.
“Exactly what the president said would happen is happening,” said Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien. “We see Democrats lying, cheating, stealing all over the country every night. We go to bed with a lead, and every night, new votes mysteriously are found in a sack.”
Jason Miller pointed to “the magical stacks of ballots” he said emerged in Democratic municipalities, “whether it’s on the back of a truck or magical numbers getting transposed.”
“This would make the Chicago Democrats in 1960 blush, the efficiency to which they’re rushing to try to steal this thing,” he added.
“It’s been a problem for decades, maybe since the beginning of time,” Clark said, adding that Trump would continue his fight against entrenched political interests with “brute force.”
Miller said the Trump campaign had dispatched “some absolute legal killers” to the front lines of the vote-count war, describing the effort as “precinct by precinct, county registrar by county registrar.”
“We’ve had them in place for weeks,” Miller said.
Stepien said that in Georgia, 8,000 Republican ballots must be “cured,” or corrected, in order for the vote to be counted. The campaign has more than 200 staff members in the state, lawyers and volunteers attempting to reach people with errors on their ballot and to rectify it before the close of business Friday.
