President Donald Trump raised concerns about “phony ballots,” questioning the concept of early voting, despite a Republican National Committee effort to embrace it.
During a town hall with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump pushed back against the host, who asked if he believes Republicans should embrace early voting, voting by mail, and legal ballot harvesting. The former president said that he did, but added that it wouldn’t matter one way or the other, due to, in Trump’s words, Democrats creating “phony ballots.”
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“The one thing a lot of people, including you, don’t talk about, [the Democrats] also create phony ballots,” Trump told Hannity. “And that’s a real problem, that’s my opinion.”
Hannity countered by making the argument for early voting. Trump didn’t disagree, but said he would like to go back to everyone voting on one day, before lamenting the “corrupt” state of the United States’s elections.
“Republicans always wanted to go out on Tuesday, they wanted to vote. I respect that. I think it’s great,” Trump said. “And it would be great if we could get back to one day … with voter ID … The Democrats don’t want verification, they don’t want voter ID because they want to cheat. You know, they want to cheat. They don’t want voter ID.”
Trump then claimed that most people support voter ID, including “regular Democrat people.”
“The one thing we have to be very careful of is phony ballots, Sean. Everything you say is great. But they create ballots. That’s my opinion, and that’s the opinion of a lot of people,” he said.
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The former president then added that he would encourage his followers to utilize early voting, but that it wouldn’t help with the “corrupt elections.”
“We have very corrupt elections. We have no borders,” Trump continued. “If you don’t have borders and you don’t have good elections, you don’t have a country.”
