Trump claims 'corruption' as Democrat leaps ahead in Arizona Senate race

Donald Trump claimed on Friday that two Arizona counties are guilty of 'corruption' because they give voters a do-over if the signatures on mail-in ballots don't match the ones that state election officials have on file.

But as of Friday evening, the entire state will be on an even keel.

In a tweet as Air Force One soared above the Atlantic Ocean carrying him to France, the president suggested the lapse in fairness could be reason enough to throw out the results of a tight Senate contest and start again.

'Just out – in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption – Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!' he wrote on Twitter.

Trump carped Friday morning outside the White House that 'in Arizona, all of a sudden, out of the wilderness, they find a lot of votes.'

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat in the race, jumped into the lead late Thursday over Republican Rep. Martha McSally as more votes were counted. There are still more than 300,000 yet to be tallied because of a decades-old computer system that wasn't built to handle this year's flood of ballots cast with a stamp instead of a click.

Some Republicans raised allegations of fraud as the vote count starts to tip into Democratic terrain.

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