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Trump Shifts Focus Away from Post Office

August 27, 2020 · 7:49 am ET · Leave a Comment

President Trump is shifting his focus from the U.S. Postal Service in his concerns about potential fraud in mail-in voting, claiming problems with mailed ballots lie with local elections officials who are “going to count them wrong,” NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “It’s not the post office … it has nothing to do with the post office.”

He added: “The problem is when they dump all these ballots in front of a few people who are counting them, and they’re going to count them wrong. The post office is not to blame.”

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