Friday, 19 June_US President Donald Trump has lambasted the balloting system of remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest threat to his 2020 reelection prospects.
Trump as well as other Republicans is of the opinion that mail-in voting would lead to widespread fraud and endanger his reelection at a time when the US states are rushing to accommodate remote voting in response to the epidemiological crisis.
Moreover, the Republican National Committee and the incumbent’s reelection campaign are investing $20 million to fight voting rights lawsuits that have popped up across the country in a bid to allow for Americans to safely vote without physically having to visit the polls due to the viral pandemic.
“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump said in an interview with the American political journalism company Politico on Friday. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”
Asked by the news outlet whether a large amount of mail-in voting would lead him to question the forthcoming US election’s legitimacy and whether he would accept the November results, Trump stopped short of providing a clear answer.
“Well, you can never answer the second question, right? Because Hillary [Clinton] kept talking about she’s going to accept, and they never accepted it. You know. She lost too. She lost good,” Trump said, referring to his 2016 Democratic opponent, who conceded in a speech the day after Election Day.
Trump has on several occasions sought to discredit mail-in voting in recent months, describing the process as “corrupt” and “very dangerous.”
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