Trump: Americans can safely go to polls amid virus

US President Donald Trump drew something more akin to the jam-packed audience of political supporters he's been craving, as hundreds of young conservatives filled a megachurch on Tuesday to hear his call for them to get behind his re-election effort.

Doubling down on his unproven assertions that there is an increased risk of voter fraud if people cast mail in ballots, Trump asserted that "we can safely go to the polls and vote during COVID-19."

Trump has in recent days stepped up claims that expanded mail-in voting will lead voting fraud.

The packed pews at the Dream City Church for the gathering of Students for Trump offered a starkly different feel compared to Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend, his first of the coronavirus era and one that only drew a sparse crowd.