It is totally in order to root out corruption , and to offer money to whistle blowers . I think that money is safe. If any elected official or public servant, made a comment like that about a person arrested on suspicion of having cheated , they would be considered to have prejudiced the case and perverted the course of justice. There is a difference between arrest and conviction .
What might happen if he gets inundated with complaints from democrats that polling stations were inaccessible, closed early, or their voting cards got lost in the post or they got arrested for loitering and unable to vote?
Remember Texas voted convincingly for Trump.
There was however a dishonest or at least disingenuous comment in his statement that if Texas was able to get the Postal vote sorted out quickly , why were others so slow. He must already have have known the answer...
In Texas ," County officials have already started reviewing mail-in ballots. In counties with over 100,000 residents, early voting ballot boards
were allowed to start convening and processing mail-in ballots 12 days before the election. In smaller ones, they could start after the polls closed on the last day of early voting — which this year was Oct. 30. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 3,
and they must arrive by Nov. 4. "
In Michigan and Pennsylvania , The Republican legislatures in those states , had EXPRESSLY Prohibited postal votes being processed , until AFTER polling had stopped.