Mail-In Ballots Will Lead To 'The Most Rigged Election': Trump

WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump on Thursday again spoke against mail-in ballots during his daily coronavirus briefing. He said his preference is to move forward with the Nov. 3 election date but again referred to a "rigged" effort if mail-in ballots are used in a significant number of states.

"I want to have the result of the election," Trump said. "I don't want to see that take a week, a month, or frankly, with all the litigation or all else that could happen, years."

"This will be the most rigged election if this happens."

The president differentiated between mail-in ballots on voting absentee, which he says he will have to do himself since he will be at the White House instead of at his residence in Florida on Election Day.

"I'd love to see voter ID, but this is the opposite of voter ID," he said, stating that mail-in ballots "will lead to the greatest fraud."

"Everyone knows it. Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it."

Trump was back in Washington for his Thursday briefing one day after addressing the media from an oilfield in Odessa, Texas.