U.S. President Donald Trump said expanded mail-in voting could cost him re-election in November, according to a Politico interview published on Friday, as states continue to press for absentee balloting amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. "My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits," Trump told Politico in the interview, conducted on Thursday. Meanwhile, lawsuits over mail-in voting have been filed in several states, including California, Texas and Arizona. In March, as Congress wrestled with coronavirus economic relief and Democrats pushed to expand access to voting, including mail-in balloting, Trump told Fox News: "If you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again." Asked if he would accept the results of the election no matter the outcome, Trump told Politico that was a question "you can never answer."

Source: The Star June 19, 2020 12:45 UTC