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Trump followed up his comments, unprecedented in modern times for a US president, resuming his almost daily complaint about the fairness of the elections.
Apparently referring to the increasing use of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic, he said: “You know I have been complaining very strongly about ballots and ballots are a disaster.”
Trump frequently claims that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to massive fraud and is encouraged by Democrats to rig the election.
However, there is no evidence that ballots sent through the postal service have ever led to significant fraud in the US elections.
At the press conference, Trump appeared to suggest voiding what is expected to be the large number of mailed ballots, noting that in such a scenario, he would remain in power.
“Get rid of the ballots and you will have a very peaceful one; there will be no transfer, frankly. There will be a follow-up,” he said.
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Trump’s latest insistence that there cannot be free and fair presidential elections came as pressure mounted on his plan to put a new right-wing Supreme Court judge.
Trump will nominate a replacement Saturday for the late liberal-leaning justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.
His Republican Party, which has a majority in the Senate, is expected to quickly confirm the candidate.
If successful, the nine-judge court will likely have a strongly pro-conservative lean in the years to come.
Democrats are crying badly, saying the process should wait until the election results are known, allowing the winner to shape the Supreme Court.
With Trump and the Republicans mounting a series of court challenges against the use of mail-in ballots, the chances of a contested election result are considered high.
On Wednesday, Trump said he believes the election “will end in the Supreme Court.”
