Donald Trump is now claiming voter fraud is going on in key states, but has provided no evidence.
advertisementUS Vice President Kamala Harris warned voters not to be put off by Donald Trump’s claims about the integrity of the presidential election ahead of the final day of voting on Tuesday.
In particular, she warned that those who did not vote should not be misled.
“I want to ask people, especially those who haven’t voted yet, not to fall for his tactics,” Harris said at a news conference. “Somehow the integrity of our voting system is not compromised so they don’t vote.”
“I think it’s a tactic. It’s to distract from the fact that we have and support free and fair elections in our country. We did that in 2020. He lost.”
“And the system that is in place for this election in 2024 is a perfect and good system, and the vote of the people will determine the outcome of this election.”
Various polls now show at least seven battleground states are too close to decide and neither Harris nor Trump have a solid lead in the national popular vote.
Former President Harris made these remarks after saying at a Trump rally that she “shouldn’t have left” the White House after the 2020 presidential election.
In his speech, Trump claimed that polls showing he lost Iowa were a form of election interference, and claimed without providing any evidence that voter fraud was already underway in Pennsylvania.
“As I understand it, they discovered that 2,600 ballots were all written by the same hand — the same handwriting, the same hand, the same everything, the same pen, the same pen. And they went and said, ‘Well, This person is a conspiracy theorist.’ This is a terrible thing that has happened to our country.”
The Trump campaign has pledged to deploy legal teams across the country to file cases alleging voter fraud, and is already taking legal action in Georgia. Claims of ‘illegal election administration’ are being leveled after certain counties left polling places open over the weekend. Early voting.
In 2020, Joe Biden won the popular vote by a clear margin, but secured very small margins in several states that Trump won in 2016, reaching a majority in the all-important Electoral College. A clear Biden victory is called.
But Trump claimed victory just hours after the vote count began, claiming the election was being stolen from him as mail-in ballots continued to be counted.
“We were preparing to win this election, frankly, and we won this election,” he said in a speech at the White House.
After Biden was declared the winner, Trump mounted legal and political campaigns in several states to overturn the results, but his efforts failed. Biden’s victory was certified by Congress on January 6, 2021, after a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol.
