Rush Limbaugh and Trump speak against mail-in votes
Citation From the October 9, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Ballots. We've got dwindling time here. Virginia Beach, Virginia, police just confirmed undelivered mail was found, this story is, might be yesterday or the day before, undelivered mail was found this afternoon in a construction dumpster in the Pungo section of Virginia Beach. The man who found it estimates 70 to 80 pounds of mail. USPS, the Postal Service, is investigating. And then we have another companion story. Mail-in ballots in West Moreland County, Pennsylvania, have been delayed. Voters are confused and frustrated -- 58,000 mail-in ballots. One county, sir, in one state. Extrapolate that to the entire state, 58,000 mail-in ballots, or as the Democrats see it, mail-in fraud. That's another thing that people want to know what can be done about this?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, look, absentee ballots where you send in for your ballot -- you know, I have an absentee ballot in Florida. You send in and you have to request it.
LIMBAUGH: You have to show ID to get one of those. You don't for a mail-in.
TRUMP: It's not easy but it's OK. Some people just can't do it. But they said that it's called absentee. I call it a solicited ballot. I like that term better. You solicit and they send it and you fix and you send it back in. OK, that's one thing. But they are sending out millions and millions of ballots. Are they sending them to all Democrats? Who are they sending them to? Where are they going? You know, et cetera, et cetera. This is going to be the second biggest political scandal in history. The first biggest is the Russian crap that we've been going through for three and a half years. That's the biggest. To me that's the biggest scandal, the biggest political scandal in history.
LIMBAUGH: It is.
TRUMP: And now they delay it? You tell me they delay it? That's going to be my first phone call by the way.
LIMBUAGH: Delay the announcement of whatever, but yes.
TRUMP: I think it's just a disgrace if that's the case. It's a disgrace and I'll say it to anybody that wants to say it. That's a disgrace. But the biggest scandal of all time is that, this would be the second biggest scandal. Every day I am seeing accounts of ballots that are thrown away -- you saw the military ballots that were thrown away with my name on it the other day? Every day you see scandal about these millions of ballots that's being sent out. It's the single biggest risk in this election.
LIMBAUGH: If this kind of stuff were happening to me, if I were a candidate, I'd have my people on this so fast. What are you doing about it?
TRUMP: We have many lawyers and we've actually been winning many cases. How about where they have the ballots counted and the ballots have to be in by November 3, Election Day, but they don't have to be counted for two weeks later. That means you are never going to know who won the election. You know, it's going to be two weeks later. I want to see on November 3 who won the election, so do you. You want to turn on your television like we have for the last 50 years and find out who won the election, right? You don't want to say, “Oh gee, they have two weeks to count their ballots," and then what happens is all sorts of ballots start showing up miraculously. We are watching it very closely and we are winning a lot of cases, Rush. You don't see it too much. We just won a big case in North Carolina, we just won a big case in Pennsylvania, I think we are going to win. We are winning a lot of cases, Rhode Island, won a big case where the ballots have to be done in a certain way. But the best way is to get up -- now I'll tell you what our people, your people, my people, Republican people, they get out -- and they're all my people as far as -- everyone's my people, but Republicans tend to get out and vote and that's what they should do. Early voting but at a machine. Early voting or voting on November 3. And wait until you see the kind of love that's going to be expressed the day those polls open -- the day those machines open, wait until you see. But the Democrats are sending in 80% of theirs by ballot. Now one thing we've noticed from what I hear and what I'm reading is a lot of the ballots, all they are doing is taking from people that would have voted in the first place, there's not a lot of new voters. You know we have many more registered voters and we have picked up a lot of voters, the Republicans. I think you are going to see a very big explosion when those polls open up, Rush. But a large percentage, like 80% of the Republicans want to vote. They want to actually go to a poll and vote.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah
TRUMP: Whereas it's almost the opposite, for whatever reason, with the Democrats. I think you are going to see a very big explosion of voting.
LIMBAUGH: Well, the Democrats need the little yellow bus showing up, picking them up, taking them to the polls. Getting there on their own is --
TRUMP: Right, right, and then they do the harvesting thing which is terrible, which is illegal in many places even with the laws that are being passed, where they go around and start picking up everybody's votes.