Trump tells his base to be poll watchers "Watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do."
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a new baseless accusation on how he believes Democrats will attempt to commit fraud during the presidential election, this time telling North Carolina rallygoers to act as poll watchers to prevent fraud at voting locations.
The President has frequently made unproven claims that American elections are rife with voter fraud and has said he lost the popular vote in the 2016 election due to fraudulent ballots being cast. Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. Voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States and there was no evidence that there was mass fraud in the 2016 race.
"Gotta be careful with those ballots. Watch those ballots. I don't like it. You know, you have a Democrat governor, you have all these Democrats watching that stuff. I don't like it," Trump said at a rally in Winston-Salem Tuesday evening.
"Watch it," he continued. "Be poll watchers when you go there. Watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do. Because this is important. We win North Carolina, we win."
The incendiary rhetoric and encouragement of his supporters to confront Democrats on Election Day comes at a time of increased political violence with clashes between Trump supporters and leftist protesters in Oregon and Wisconsin resulting in arrests, assaults and multiple deaths in recent weeks.
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3-hour class next week. If I do well on the exam I can take another class to become a Voting System Specialist. 
