Donald Trump during a White House press briefing (public domain)We’ve all been expecting this, no?
Donald Trump floated the idea of postponing the 2020 presidential election in a tweet today saying “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
No, Donald.
First, folks have been mailing in ballots for decades. Whole states vote that way as well has hundreds of thousands of military service members.
Per the Washington Post: “The U.S. Constitution gives the power to regulate the “time, place and manner” of general elections to the U.S. House and Senate, with Congress also empowered to alter the rules. States control the dates of primary elections. Nowhere is the president granted such power.”
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Only Congress can delay the election, and we won’t be doing it just so a fascist can preserve his power. https://t.co/2ngg0NgitD
— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) July 30, 2020
Trump mailed in a ballot in 2017.
He voted by mail in 2018.
And voted for himself by mail in 2020.
If vote-by-mail is safe enough for the president, it’s safe enough for the American people.— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 30, 2020
Sen. Ted Cruz said: “Election fraud is a serious problem we need to stop it and fight it, but no the election should not be delayed.”
Sen. Marco Rubio said of Trump tweet: “I wish he hadn’t said that, but it’s not going to change: We are going to have an election in Novembe”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 30, 2020
and there it is, ladies and gents: the Deteriorating Dictator Wanna-Be is calling for postponing the election. color me unsurprised
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 30, 2020
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020