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Trump urges supporters to watch ballots after Wallace asks if he'll urge calm
Sep 30, 2020
President Trump on Tuesday night cited concerns over the use of mail-in ballots in dodging a question on whether he would wait to declare victory until a full vote count was completed.
When asked by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace during the first presidential debate on whether he would urge his supporters to “stay calm” during an extended election counting process due to an influx of mail-in ballots, Trump said they should “watch very carefully” the counting of ballots.
“I am urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that is what needs to happen, I am urging them to do it,” Trump said during the closing minutes of the debate. “I hope it’s going to be a fair election, and if it’s a fair election, I am 100 percent on board, but if I see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated, I can’t go along with that.”
Trump cited concerns over mail-in ballot fraud, pointing specifically to a seven military ballots cast by members of the military for Trump that the Justice Department said last week were found discarded in a district in Pennsylvania. Trump described this incident as “cheating.”
Trump has railed against the process of mail-in voting over the past months, citing mostly unsubstantiated concerns about fraud. Trump and first lady Melania Trump sent in absentee ballots during the Florida primary election earlier this year.
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