Trump Unveils Latest Effort to Lay Groundwork to Challenge Election

Donald Trump is considering suing the U.S. Postal Service in an apparent bid to skew mail-in voting results.

In an interview Monday night with Real America’s Voice host Wayne Allen Root, Trump revisited his past complaints about mail-in voting, which he previously criticized for being rife with fraud before and after the 2020 election.

“We have a very bad election. We have a bad voting system. We have mail-in ballots. You know, it’s very interesting, I read the other day that the Postal Service is saying how bad it is,” Trump said.

“The Postal Service is criticizing themselves, saying, ‘We’re in terrible shape, we can’t deliver the mail,’ and they’re not even talking about mail-in ballots: ‘Well, we’re going to throw out millions and millions of ballots,'” Trump said. “And I’m like, ‘How could they vote?’

“And I said, you know, we should go to court and sue, because they’re going to lose hundreds of thousands of ballots. Maybe intentionally. Or maybe just incompetently,” Trump continued.

“I think it was yesterday, the United States Postal Service Union endorsed Kamala Harris,” Root noted.

“Now you have mail-in ballots in the hands of people who just endorsed Kamala Harris,” Root said. “That union — how do you know it’s going to be a clean election?”

“Well, they’ve always been a very democratic union. We have people who love us, too,” Trump responded.

Trump’s plan to sue the U.S. Postal Service comes just days after he cast doubt on the organization in a Truth Social article.

“The USPS has admitted that it is a poorly managed mess, suffering from mail loss and delays at an unprecedented level. Given that, how can we hope to allow or trust the USPS to handle the 2024 presidential election? I will.” Help me! Trump wrote Sunday.

(The Postmaster General is Louis DeJoy, a Trump appointee.)

With these comments, Trump is once again laying the groundwork to challenge election results that he doesn’t like.

Just a few months ago, the Republican Party began taking additional steps to encourage mail-in voting, after falsely claiming it was responsible for Trump’s 2020 defeat. Ahead of the general election In 2020, Trump claimed that mail-in voting was unreliable and encouraged his supporters to vote by mail in person in the midst of a global pandemic.

In May, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump told the Associated Press, “In this election cycle, Republicans will beat Democrats at their own game, leveraging every legal tactic at our disposal, based on the rules of each state.” In July, she suggested that the former president had learned to embrace mail-in voting. However, Trump continues to harshly (and wrongly) criticize the tactic as being riddled with fraud.

In fact, it’s unclear whether Trump is actually willing to vote by mail. In March, Lara Trump said that Trump planned to eliminate mail-in voting altogether if elected president.

The U.S. Postal Service is well prepared to handle the election, including improving carrier training and working directly with election officials to manage the influx of mail-in ballots, DeJoy wrote in a letter Monday.