Pelosi says ‘ignore’ Trump’s warning over mail-in ballots and slams attempt to ‘suppress vote and scare people’

HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Americans to “ignore Trump” and claimed the president is attempting to “suppress the vote” in a press conference Saturday.

“Don’t pay any attention to what the president is saying because it is all designed to suppress the vote,” Pelosi said in the rare news conference.

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Nancy Pelosi speaks about the United States Postal Service in a press conference[/caption]

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Pelosi called on Americans to ‘ignore Trump’ during a press conference Saturday[/caption]

The top Democrat, who called for lawmakers to return to session for a vote on a $25 billion funding bill for the U.S. Postal Service, has repeatedly said that mail-in ballots are essential during the coronavirus pandemic as millions of voters plan to send in their ballots instead of heading to the polls.

Trump has routinely raged against mail-in voting, often calling it a “scam” to influence the election in favor of Democrats.

“Representatives of the Post Office have repeatedly stated that they DO NOT NEED MONEY, and will not make changes. This is all another HOAX by the Democrats to give 25 Billion unneeded dollars for political purposes, without talking about the Universal Mail-In Ballot Scam that they are trying to pull off in violation of everything that our Country stands for,” Trump said on Twitter.

He continued: “Vote NO to the Pelosi/ Schumer money wasting HOAX which is taking place now. Then fight the $51 million unasked for Ballots. Only ABSENTEE BALLOTS are acceptable!”

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President Donald Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus[/caption]

Democrats claim Trump has been attempting to influence the 2020 presidential election after new Postmaster General Louis Dejoy, who was appointed by a board of governors all appointed by Trump, made recent sweeping changes within the USPS.

The postal service has removed many of its iconic blue mailboxes and planned to get rid of nearly 700 high-volume mail sorters.

In her press conference, Pelosi claimed that in her “unsatisfactory” talks with the postmaster general, Dejoy said he had no intention of restoring postal boxes that had been removed.

Democrats have also pushed to have mail-in ballots counted as First-Class Mail – which she recounted that Dejoy had “no intention” of doing unless it was in the bill.

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A person drops applications for mail-in-ballots into a mail box in Omaha, Neb.[/caption]

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City of Milwaukee Election Commission worker processes and sorts absentee ballots for Wisconsin’s primary election[/caption]

Pelosi also ripped Trump who told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that he is interested in having law enforcement at the polls to monitor the votes and avoid fraud.

“It’s in their playbook that they’re going to have people intimated to vote by having ICE agents and other law enforcement there to instill fear in people as they show up,” Pelosi said.

She added: “It’s scary but ignore that. It’s a suppress-the-vote tactic as is the suppressing of the availability of the postal service to deliver on its responsibility to treat ballots as First-Class Mail and to deliver it in a timely fashion.”

Pelosi also called on Americans to vote early to give clear results “as close to the election as possible.”

“The more that vote by mail, there may be some counting after the election,” she said.

More than 90 percent of people support the U.S. Postal Service, which Pelosi called “as American as apple pie.”

“There isn’t any agency of government that can make that claim,” she said.