Trump rallies on Election Day eve, says ballot counting after Tuesday will lead to ‘cheating’
President Trump on Election Day eve told pumped-up supporters at packed rallies that Tuesday is going to be a “tremendous day,” while he continued to blast judges for allowing ballot counting in the days after saying it was ripe for cheating.
With Pennsylvania as a key battleground state of 20 electoral votes — and with polls showing Joe Biden ahead there — Trump in Scranton told rally-goers, “We’re going to win. We’ve got some big surprises.”
“I think we’re going to have a tremendous day tomorrow,” the president said, later adding, “I think what we’re going to have is one of the great days.”
The president ripped Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf over coronavirus restrictions and said, “Count the votes honestly, governor.”
“Governor, open up your state and please don’t cheat, governor,” Trump said. “We’re all watching you, governor. We have a lot of eyes on the governor and his friends. A couple of other governors out there, too.”
Trump’s comments about governors come in the wake of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer being the target of a kidnapping plot over the state’s COVID-19 restrictions.
The president berated courts at a North Carolina rally for allowing ballots to get tallied after Election Day, saying the ruling “puts our country in danger.”
“What a ruling, what a ruling, what a horrible thing that they’ve done,” Trump said of the courts, later adding, “Cheating can happen like you’ve never seen.”
“What can happen during that long period of time is just a disgrace,” he said.
In Texas on Monday, a federal judge rejected another last-ditch Republican effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centers established during the pandemic.
The lawsuit was brought by conservative Texas activists who have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, where a record 1.4 million early votes have already been cast. The judge said said the opponents to drive-thru centers had no standing to bring a lawsuit. The judge added that people had already voted and that conservative activists had months to bring a challenge sooner.
“I’m just so tired of some of these horrible political decisions that are being made,” Trump said on Monday. “It’s a shame. It’s a shame.”
Trump said next year will be country’s greatest economic year, and he blasted Biden as a “corrupt politician” and a “stone-cold phony.”
Herald wire services were used in this report.
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