'Nuts': Anderson Cooper fact-checks 'very strange' Trump 'lie' on CNN
Donald Trump complained that presidential election results might not be known on Election Night, but CNN's Anderson Cooper said his suggested reform was already in place.
The former president called for using paper ballots and one-day voting to prevent the delays expected in Pennsylvania and some other key states, which he blamed on electronic and mail-in voting.
"If they used paper ballots it would be over by 10:00," Trump said at his polling place in West Palm Beach, Florida. "Paper ballots would only cost 8 percent of the cost. If they would use paper ballots, voter ID, proof of citizenship and one-day voting it would all be over by 10:00. It's crazy. They use very expensive computers and I am hearing in Pennsylvania they will not have an answer until two or three days from now. I think that is an absolute outrage."
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) appeared on CNN a short time after Trump's news conference, and she criticized his closing message to voters and debunked his claims about paper ballots.
"Donald Trump to me has been spiraling down," Klobuchar said. "I know he claims the end to be appealing to women and he calls the woman leader the B-word. Somehow yesterday he decided to get into fluoride after the man he claimed he wanted to put in as [Health and Human Services] secretary said he wanted to limit fluoride or get rid of fluoride in drinking water, so I guess he is ending with more cavities. He has continued to deny the election results and, what you just said in your report, 97 percent of jurisdictions in America have backup paper ballots, and the only ones that don't are some counties in Texas and Louisiana. I can see the campaign spiraling."
Cooper agreed, saying doesn't know why Trump lied about paper ballots.
"It's nuts, this controversy of not having paper ballots," Cooper said. "Even voting machines have paper ballots, there are backup paper ballots. It's just not the case, it is a very strange thing that he continues to lie about."
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