House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said he worries more that President Trump will try to keep “millions of Americans” from voting safely in November than he does that the commander in chief would try to delay election day.
Asked on MSNBC Sunday about presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s concern that Trump would try to delay the November election because of coronavirus, Schiff (D-Calif.) said that the president did not have the authority to do so.
“I’m more worried he will try to disenfranchise millions of Americans than that he will try to put off the election. He’s already talking down absentee voting, making false claims about the reliability of absentee voting even when he votes by absentee himself,” the California Democrat said.
“But he has openly admitted — and its rather startling to hear him say out in the open — that he believes that more Americans vote, more would participate in our democracy, he and other Republicans can’t get elected. That may very well be true, but that is not a reason to disenfranchise people. It’s a reason to change their platform,” he continued.
The frequent Trump critic went on to accuse Republicans of putting people’s health at risk in an effort to reduce turnout in November, specifically with their opposition to mail-in-voting.
“I do think that like they tried in Wisconsin, the Republicans may try to force people to choose their vote or their health,” Schiff said, “And we need to insist, and I think needs to be a very important point in terms of protecting the health care of our democracy, we need to insist that every American in the fall if they choose to do so, has easy access to voting-by-mail with a postage-paid ballot. Because we can’t preserve the health of our country if we allow democracy to be destroyed.”
Earlier this month, President Trump reaffirmed his opposition to the voting-by-mail practice.
“Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to statewide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans,” he wrote on Twitter.
Mail-in voting has become much more widely utilized in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Democrats in recent weeks have pushed for an increase in the practice to deter the spread of coronavirus, specifically in the wake of Wisconsin being left unable to postpone their recent primary elections.
The practice has seen a jump in support from Democrats amid concerns over the virus spreading at polling places. A new poll from AP/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that Democrats are now much more likely to support absentee voting than Republicans, 47% to 29%.
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