Trump Attacks Nevada Governor On Absentee Voting
TEXT: LET'S GET AFTER IT.</s>CUOMO: What is it? All right, the President is spewing more BS about the election, this time, taking direct aim at Nevada, and its Governor, listen.</s>TRUMP: The biggest threat to this election is these unsolicited ballots sent out by the millions, controlled by governors, like in Nevada, who is a political person, very political, far beyond being governor. And in the case of Nevada, they don't even want verification of the signature. It's a disgrace.</s>CUOMO: Now, look, this much we know. One, the governor doesn't run the election in any state, let alone Nevada. The Secretary of State does, in every state. And the Secretary of State in Nevada is a Republican, OK? And yes, you do have to verify signatures. But it's very interesting. They do have signature verification in a way that you do not get verified when you go in person, for what it's worth. Now, who checks those? The same Republican Secretary of State will be checking and said they will be checking. But since the President is calling him out, we have Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak here to respond.</s>TEXT: ONE ON ONE.</s>CUOMO: Governor, thank you for being with us. Respect you having the mask.</s>GOV. STEVE SISOLAK (D-NV): Thanks for having me, Chris. I really appreciate the opportunity.</s>CUOMO: So, we have learned something in this election, Gov. Facts have a hard time against feelings. And the President is doing a good job, as you probably know, in your State, which has a pretty good partisan mix, that people are getting scared about what he's saying about these ballots. What do you want them to know?</s>SISOLAK: Well, first off, his misinformation is dangerous. He can tell the lies over and over again, they don't change the fact that they're lies. He is working to undermine the integrity of our election, which is extremely offensive. Nevada runs the best elections in the country. We have a Republican Secretary of State, who I have total confidence in that this election will be run smoothly. I do not handle the ballots, count the ballots, send out the ballots, print the ballots. It's not in my purview. It's the Republican Secretary of State. And I have total confidence that she will run a fair and transparent election.</s>CUOMO: So, here's the pushback. "I don't know. It's dicey. Hanging chads, one election, now it's going to be signatures. 6,700 ballots weren't counted in Nevada's June primary over signatures not matching. Sounds like a problem."</s>SISOLAK: Well if the signatures didn't match, they shouldn't count. That's what prevents the fraud from happening. You've got a president - first off, he can't pronounce the name of the state correctly. We run proficient elections here. He can keep spreading lies. He is working to undermine the integrity of this election. It's just not good for our people. But then again, he doesn't care about the citizens in this State. He didn't care when he had his rally. He doesn't care when he's spouting misinformation that are just lies to undermine the integrity of our election. He only cares about himself.</s>CUOMO: But Gov, not only do the polls show that something's working for him because first term, with a pandemic on your watch, a national outcry for equality that you seem to be fomenting, and in opposition to, an economy that's gone down south, except for the stock market, you think he'd be 15 points behind where he is. And in terms of his phonics, pronouncing Nevada as Nevada, this is a guy who said "Yo, Semite" Park, who pronounced Thailand, "Thighland," who said--</s>SISOLAK: Right.</s>CUOMO: --herd mentality instead of herd immunity. You think phonics is going to get in his way?</s>SISOLAK: No, I don't think anything is going to get in his way. And he has a group of supporters, some of whom are so committed to him, when he said early on that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, and nobody would accuse him of a crime, he meant that. And he has a certain group of followers that will follow him, as the Vice President said, right off a cliff, if that's where he tells them to go. But I am confident that the citizens in our country are going to see what's right and what's wrong. It doesn't matter how many times you tell it. You can't make a lie a truth. George Washington said, "You never tell - always tell the truth, never tell a lie," and President Trump is just "Always tell a lie."</s>CUOMO: So ultimately, what is your biggest concern about - you are going to have a lot of ballots. They are expecting 80 million ballots of this form are going to be put out. Most of the states are allowing it for COVID purposes, not all. You do have states that put them out, like yours, in perfunctory manner, and you have run elections that way, as you pointed out. What's your biggest concern?</s>SISOLAK: My biggest concern is that someone tries to intimidate voters that can't exercise their right to vote. You should not have to choose between your health and between exercising your right to vote when it comes to this election. No one should have to make that choice. We had an all-mail-in ballot in the primary that we had in June. It went absolutely fine. This one's going to go fine. My concern is that he keeps putting this misinformation out there, and that's dangerous. It's absolutely dangerous that he does that. And to attempt to undermine something as sacred as our election system is really problematic.</s>CUOMO: You worried for what he means for you at home, by attacking you?</s>SISOLAK: Well I'm worried to a certain extent. But I mean he's attacked me before. I mean you get on a conference call, with the Vice President and his Task Force, they say one thing, and do something completely different. That's why I had to reach out with a letter today to the Vice President. I am worried that people continue to listen to what he says when he's just not speaking the truth.</s>CUOMO: All right, Governor--</s>SISOLAK: And it risks lives - he puts lives at risk, that's the biggest issue.</s>CUOMO: There's no question about it.</s>SISOLAK: People will die as a result of some of his behavior.</s>CUOMO: Well God forbid, but that's the concern, why is it taking us so long in this country to get where so many others have. Governor Steve Sisolak, thank you very much for weighing in tonight. Appreciate it.</s>SISOLAK: Thanks for having me, and happy birthday to your mom.</s>CUOMO: Thank you very much, best news I've had in a long time.</s>SISOLAK: Right.</s>CUOMO: Be well.</s>SISOLAK: Great.</s>CUOMO: All right, so yes, testing has always been the key. We've said it here. You've heard it plenty of times. But how? You've heard that here also, right? Not only do we not test enough, we don't test the right way in the right places. And that's part of why I won't let this kids-in-school thing go. They should be in school. "Wait, but how? You said you don't have the testing." But that shouldn't be the case. We should have found a better way, and there is a better way. See, they keep telling you and me, "We got to wait when we get more tests." What kind of tests? How are they being processed? Where are you getting them? Who's helping you? The answers start to fall away. But we have them, and you have to push for them. And I'm going to give them to you out of the mouth of the main expert, next.</s>TEXT: CUOMO PRIME TIME.