Some of President Trump's aides and allies are quietly hoping to shift the conversation away from voter fraud and toward a more nuanced warning that the greater threat to the election is confusion and incompetency on the local level.
As President Donald Trump recovers from coronavirus and reprises his inflammatory rhetoric about voting on social media, some aides and allies are quietly hoping to shift the conversation away from fraud and toward a more nuanced warning that the greater threat to the election is confusion and incompetency on the local level.
Their efforts have yielded little so far from a President intent on using headlines about mail-in voting growing pains as fodder for his conspiracy theories.Speaking to Fox Business by phone Thursday at the White House, Trump cited recent ballot printing issues to argue -- without evidence -- that local officials are working to steal the race from him. "These are cheaters, these are these are con men, these are cheaters that we're dealing with," he said.
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