President Trump warned against using vote by mail in the upcoming 2020 election.
In an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday, Trump remarked on a House spending bill spearheaded by Democrats, which includes provisions to pay for workers’ salaries up to $100,000 and funds for mail-in voting for elections held during the coronavirus pandemic.
“In terms of voting by mail, vote proxies, what’s your take? Do you want that?” Bartiromo asked the president.
“Voting by mail is very dangerous because people can grab them; people can take that proxy, sign a name. They can do all sorts of things, especially harvesting. They go out, and they say, ‘You know, let’s put them all together.’ And that’s happened. By the way, we were thinking it might happen in California. We were worried about the race,” Trump said.
In late April, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated her support for voting-by-mail during an interview on MSNBC, saying it is a public health issue and protects the “life of our democracy.”
“Why would Nancy Pelosi come up with this $3 trillion plan? She knows it’s dead on arrival. She knows nobody will go for a marijuana business in the middle of a pandemic,” Bartiromo also asked.
“More than anything else, she wants the way of voting changed. Because if you did that — look, they have had some very dishonest things. You look at California, look at Los Angeles, where Judicial Watch settled a case where they agreed that a million votes were fraudulent, a million votes in one area were fraudulent. And they could have done a lot more. It was so ridiculous. There was no reason to go any further. They came to a settlement. They agreed on a million votes. The level of dishonesty with Democrat voting is unbelievable,” Trump said.
“What’s happening is crazy. So, now they want to send out vote by mail. Who is going to — who knows who is signing this stuff?” he wondered.
