The President was asked a question about the size of the Democrats' majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. He quickly segued into a boast about how he has rooted out corruption in the FBI and Department of Justice - "We're getting to the bottom of it and I've done a helluva job" - before raising the Arizona vote-counting.
"But, it is interesting. It always seems to go the way of the Democrats. Now in Arizona, all of a sudden, out of the wilderness they find a lot of votes. And she’s – the other candidate – is just winning by a hair."
Here is President Trump's entire response about the Tuesday election, as the context is important. The Arizona comment is at the 1:05 mark.
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Trump then quickly repeated a rant about corruption in the elections process in Broward County (Florida). The Arizona comments were sandwiched by his corruption remarks, and was in concert with comments today from his 2020 campaign chair. Brad Parscale, alleging fraud.
These democrat counties in Florida and Arizona are playing tricks because they just can’t accept the fact they lost. I will not be shocked if investigations lead to rampant fraud. Republicans need to send every lawyer we have to protect the legitimacy of these elections.— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 9, 2018
There is no evidence of any "found" votes or any "trickery" or "fraud" in Arizona's ballot processing and counting process, and unfounded accusations against the integrity of Arizona's elections - especially coming from the President - is irresponsible, reckless and could be construed as un-American.
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