president trump's sounding the alarm
again on mail-in voting and predicting
that the supreme court will have to
decide the outcome of the election
part of why he thinks it's urgent to
confirm a replacement
for justice ginsburg before election day
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it's going to be a disaster i'm not even
saying bad for me i
you could work both ways i don't think
it will work both ways but it could work
both ways could be against
republicans or democrats i think this
will end up in the supreme court
and i think it's very important that we
have nine justices
former white house press secretary and
fox news contributor sarah sanders joins
me now she's author of the new book
speaking for myself faith freedom and
the fight for our lives
inside the trump white house it is now
available in store sir it's always great
to talk to you you just heard the
president's comments there
a few seconds ago what do you make of
him continuing to hammer
the idea of mail-in ballots
well i think there's certainly concern
for a lot of states who
have never conducted mail-in voting
before
and have openly said that it could take
days if not weeks to count all of those
ballots
even reporting as of today says that joe
biden's campaign who has
been uh very supportive of melon voting
over the past several weeks and months
is now encouraging their voters to vote
in person
because of what we can expect to be
large delays
and certainly a difficult process for
those who have never con for states who
have never conducted
mail-in voting prior to this election
having that type of delay could cause
i think very much destabilizing our
country
pushing off a week before we know who
the winner is
could certainly i think lead to a lot of
people questioning the final result
which i don't think is good for anyone
yeah and we should note that there are
states that you know will actually be
counting ballots six days
after the election that's a good point
but you know even when the president was
asked about committing to a peaceful
transfer of power
he brought up again mail-in balloting
watch this
will you commit to making sure that
there is a peaceful transferal of power
after the election well we're gonna have
to see what happens you know that i've
been complaining very strongly about
the ballots and the ballots are a
yeah disaster critics say he's girding
for a fight here sarah your thoughts
well i think the president feels like
many americans that it's not going to
matter because he's going to win on
election day and he'll be serving
another four years
so i don't think he expects to need to
have any type of transfer of power
i think he feels like he's in a good
place polling this week
in several key battleground states like
arizona and florida have the president
ahead
i think he feels good about where he is
right now but again
i do think that there is concern for
states who have not conducted
this type of mail-in voting before and
having that delay
i think is going to cause a lot of
people to question that final result if
we don't know what it is and they don't
even
finish and or in some cases start
counting some of the ballots until six
days after the election takes place
so the debate is about five days away
now we're told in preparations that joe
biden is doing intensive preps the
president is doing what he's doing
uh politico writes the following here
trump falls into a trap he set for biden
some on trump's team are bracing for a
humiliating loss
at next week's debate after trump
lowered expectations
by before biden by mocking his acumen
for months do you feel like the trump
campaign
is lowering expectations for the
president's performance
well i think that if joe biden doesn't
fall asleep on stage the media will
declare him the winner
regardless of how well the president
does but let's not forget
president trump is taking questions
almost every single day
from the press uh in a variety of
different formats so
he is prepping all the time whereas joe
biden has not been doing
day in and day out press conferences the
way president trump is the way i see it
he's prepping every single day
i think he'll do fine he did a great job
in 2016. i do think it's important
for him to come out strong but he isn't
just up against joe biden
unfortunately he's up against the
liberal media who want joe biden to do
well in these debates
and if he doesn't completely blow it i
think they'll declare them him the
winner no matter how good
donald trump does on that stage sarah
sanders good to see you thank you
you bet thanks trace