WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sounded the alarm Saturday about when the country will know the effects of November’s presidential election, warning that it can only take “months” or even “years.”
“Usually, at the end of the night, they say “Donald Trump won the election, Donald Trump is their new president,” Trump said at a news convention at his Hotel in Bedminster, New Jersey.
“You know what? You’re not going to know, maybe, if you’ve done it right, for months or years. Because all those ballots will be lost, they’ll all disappear,” Trump said, repeating false statements on ballots by mail.
Trump said the U.S. Postal ServiceIt did not have enough resources to gather the expected accumulation on the ballots by mail for this year’s election, and it is the Democrats’ fault that the company remains unfunded.
“They need a billion dollars to rescue the states. Array… mismanaged Democratic states,” Trump said of Democratic lawmakers. “They don’t give the cash to the post office.”
Democrats for months have called for more investment for the USPS, as well as investments so that states have the resources they want to prepare for an election amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans have been reluctant to settle for those demands, and neither side has been able for weeks to reach agreement on the upcoming coronavirus relief bill.
Trump saturday rejected reporters’ questions about whether Post Minister Louis DeJoy intentionally sought to retain mail less than 3 months before the general election.
“He’s looking to simplify the post and make it wonderful again,” Trump said.
Numerous states have received letters from the Postal Service in recent days warning them that there is not enough time for ballots to be requested, completed and returned before the Nov. 3 presidential election, a startling development as many states have expanded mail-in voting because of the pandemic.
Trump also refused to overturn this week’s racist and unfounded claim about California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris, who was not eligible for vice president or president because he was not born in the United States, and told reporters, “I had nothing to do. do with it.”