President Trump on Thursday accused the Democrats’ push for funding for universal post-in-ballots as one of the reasons for a delay in negotiations over Capitol Hill over a fourth coronavirus incentive package, claiming that the practice in the elections in 2020 “the biggest fraud in history.”
During an exclusive interview with FOX Business ‘Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning, the president said that negotiations on the fourth economic stimulus package were held, in part, because of the Democrats’ demands for billions of dollars in post-in-vote funding.
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“It’s her fault,” Trump said. “They want $ 3.5 billion for something that is fraudulent … for the post-vote, universal post-vote. They want $ 25 billion for the post office. They need that money so it can work. and they can take those millions and millions of ballots. “
Trump added: “But if they do not get those two items, then they can not have e-mail votes.”
The president continued with the practice, saying that votes were sent “to dogs” and “dead people”, citing states such as Virginia, where he said more than “500,000 false ballot applications were sent to voters,” and in New York, where voter turnout caused a week-long delay in announcing results for some races in the primary state.
“How do you want $ 3.5 billion for mail voting? You know how much money that is? “They want $ 25 billion for the post office, because the post office has to go to the city to get these ridiculous votes in,” Trump said.
The president went on to say that “there is nothing wrong with coming out and voting” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“They voted in World War I and in World War II,” Trump said. “They need to have voter ID, because Democrats are scamming the system.”
He added, referring back to negotiations over Capitol Hill, “If we do not make a deal, that means they will not get the money and they will not have a universal mail-in vote.”
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The president went to California, where he said the state “is sending out tens of millions of votes.”
“Maybe they will go to everyone but Republicans,” he said. ‘We’ll fight it in court. It is challenged on several levels. ”
He added: “This will be the biggest fraud in history – this will be almost as fraudulent as Obama spying on my campaign.”
The president and the Republican Party have been warning for months about possible fraud linked to post-voting. The RNC and the Trump campaign have filed lawsuits to retaliate against Democrats’ efforts to restore voting laws in response to the pandemic.
Democrats, pushing back against the claims of Trump and the GOP, say cases of real voter fraud are limited and argue that Republicans are trying to suppress voter turnout to improve their chances of winning elections.
Meanwhile, the president went on to beat Democrats, such as freshman progressive rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., who he predicted would eventually oust Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. challenged, and said she would win.
The president, however, dismissed her as a “poor student,” saying she “yaps,” but said Schumer “will be warmed by them.”
“AOC will run against Chuck Schumer for the Senate and I think she will win.”
The president then said that the “progressive democrats beat the regular democrats.”
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“Look at Eliot Engel! What happened to Engel? What happened? What happened? “He said.” Ya lost, Eliot. “
Trump called confirmed rep. Eliot Engel, DN.Y., who lost in his primary against progressive candidate Jamaal Bowman.
“I think we’ll take the House because Nancy Pelosi is crazy cold,” he said, predicting an election result for 2020. “We will take the House back and we will hold the presidency.”
He said, however, that Republicans “will fight very hard in the Senate.”
“We have a few people who are not so supportive of Trump,” he said. “But if they do not support Trump, they will lose their election.”
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It is unclear which Republican senators referred the president, but earlier this week the president sparred with Ben Sasse after the Nebraska Republican senator criticized his executive actions over the weekend that would provide economic relief to U.S. citizens amid the pandemic of the coronavirus as an “Unconstitutional slop.”
“You have a few people who want to be nice, and I think they’ll lose their election,” Trump said. “And that’s a problem for the Senate.”
