Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker condemned President Donald Trump’s “appalling and outrageous” refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 presidential election.
After being asked by a reporter on Thursday about Trump’s refusal to commit, citing concerns over the ballots, Baker said, “I voted mail-in in the primary. It was what I would describe, here in Massachusetts, pretty similar to the way mail-in ballots work in most states, which is it’s basically absentee balloting on steroids.”
“Part of the reason we put that program in place in Massachusetts was because we weren’t really sure where Covid was going to be for the primary or the general election and we wanted to make sure people who were concerned about going to polling places would have an option, and it worked just fine,” he continued. “The same way it worked just fine across the rest of the country.”