Democrats are trying to set up their ability to steal the 2020 election through insisting on mail-in voting, and their efforts could result in "the most disastrous election in American history," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday.
"We're seeing it in New York right now," Gingrich said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "With two congressional ballots, six weeks after the primary, they haven't been able to announce a winner. Now you get into that in terms of a presidential campaign...the Democrats are trying, frankly, to set up an ability to steal it, because I don't think they think they can win an honest election."
Gingrich's comments come after the Trump campaign, along with Republican state and national committees, sued Nevada over its plans to expand mail-in voting for the November election. The lawsuit claims that Nevada's Assembly Bill 4, allowing ballots to be mailed to all registered voters, will undermine the integrity of the election.
The former speaker also slammed former Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, who tweeted that she fears "Republican sabotage of the USPS, including slowing mail delivery, is a Trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult this fall. Request your ballots and return them as early as you can.”
“I think Hillary misses the entire point,” Gingrich said. Nevada is "going to mail ballots to 200,000 people, who according to the post office don't exist. They’re either dead, they’ve moved, the address doesn't work, 200,000 extra ballots floating around out there."
President Donald Trump has also spoken out against mail-in voting, but on Tuesday he encouraged Florida voters to request mail-in ballots as the system there is "safe and secure, tried and true."
Gingrich said he's "very concerned," however, about mail-in voting, quoting sources that claim vote theft could occur.
"I think this is a real thing,” he said. “I think people need to be worried about it and it tells you how polarized we are.”
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