- President Donald Trump made more false claims about mail-in voting on Monday, leading Twitter to label one of his posts as potentially "misleading."
- Trump was particularly incensed by the US Supreme Court's decision not to hear a Republican challenge regarding mail-in votes in Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania election officials will count ballots that are received up to 72 hours after November 3, so long as there is no evidence they were cast after Election Day.
- Trump suggested counting such votes would lead to "violence in the streets."
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President Donald Trump appears to be pinning his hopes in Pennsylvania on preventing every vote cast in the commonwealth from being counted, with his latest dubious attack on mail-in voting flagged by Twitter on Monday as potentially "misleading."
In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania by fewer than 45,000 votes. This time, however, former Vice President Joe Biden has been leading in the polls there ever since he won the Democratic nomination — on the eve of the election, he's up by an average of 4.9 percentage points.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, all Pennsylvanians are eligible to cast their vote by mail. But amid Trump's constant stream of unsubstantiated claims about the practice, his supporters seem far less likely to do so. Only 25% of mail-in ballots in the state were requested by registered Republicans.
Trump's latest claim is that counting these votes, up to three days after the election, "will allow rampant and unchecked cheating."
The president repeated that baseless theory in person.
—Sam Levine (@srl) November 3, 2020
