Meadows Says Trump ‘Has Not Looked at Delaying Any Election’

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is trying to put to rest the idea that President 👤Donald Trump will try to delay the November 3 general election.

During an appearance on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Meadows was asked if Trump seriously considered delaying the election.

“All of this that we’re talking about comes down to one thing,” Meadows said. “Universal mail-in ballots. That is not a good idea for the country. We don’t have to look any further than New York to see what a debacle mail-in ballots have been, when we have weeks and weeks of delay of who the winner is. Can you imagine if that is with the President of the United States?”

When asked to clarify when Trump had explored the idea of a delay, Meadows said, “He has not looked at delaying any election.”

However, Meadows argued that the country would see a delay if states vastly expand mail-in ballots because he argued states are “not equipped to handle” processing and counting hundreds of thousands or millions of mail-in ballots.

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When asked if it was responsible for the president to suggest delaying the election, Meadows said of Trump’s tweet, “Well it was a question mark.”

“It is responsible for him to say that if we try to go to 100% universal mail-in ballots will we have an election result on November 3? No, I would suggest that we wouldn’t even have it on January 3. And so we’ve got to make sure that we do this in a proper way where we promote absentee ballots. We make sure that a ballot goes from an individual to the ballot box without someone else having the ability to conduct a fraudulent effort.”