Less than one week after the president called for a delay to the 2020 election due to his concern over mail-in voting, Donald Trump has now alleged that the election results may not be known for "years".
As part of a wide-ranging Fox & Friends interview, Trump cautioned that if states like Nevada are permitted to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters, it could take "years" to get the results from November's elections.
He alleged that the infrastructure is not there for such a sizeable operation.
"It could be for months and months," he said. "It could be for years".
The 45th President of the United States then pointed out that a congressional primary election in New York has resulted in weeks of vote-counting after citizens mailed in their ballots.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday morning, Trump denounced the mail-in voting process as a "corrupt disaster". It was these allegations that he corroborated during his interview with Fox, claiming that we may not know the election result in Nevada for moths or "years".
"Nevada has ZERO infrastructure for Mail-In Voting. It will be a corrupt disaster if not ended by the Courts. It will take months, or years, to figure out. Florida has built a great infrastructure, over years, with two great Republican Governors. Florida, send in your Ballots!" he wrote on Twitter.
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On Tuesday (August 4th), the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Nevada's considerable expansion of mail-in voting.
"The RNC has a vital interest in protecting the ability of Republican voters to cast, and Republican candidates to receive, effective votes in Nevada elections and elsewhere," the lawsuit read, according to the Independent.
This comes after Nevada state legislature passed an election bill that "ensures protections for Nevadans to vote safely at the November election during the pandemic," per Democrat Governor Steve Sisolak.
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In a tweet posted on Monday, he said: "During this global pandemic, I made a commitment that we’d do all we can to allow Nevadans to safely cast a ballot in the upcoming November election."