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Trump Suggests Delaying the Election Due to Virus

Published 30/07/2020, 13:53
Updated 30/07/2020, 13:57
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By Geoffrey Smith

Investing.com -- The presidential election in November should be delayed due to safety concerns, President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday.

"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???" Trump said via his Twitter account.

Twitter has already flagged as misleading previous tweets by Trump claiming that the adoption of mail-in voting would lead to election-tampering.

Trump's tweet came only minutes after figures showing that the U.S. economy shrank by 9.5% in the second quarter, the biggest contraction since the U.S. started compiling such data in 1947.

Trump has trailed his opponent Joe Biden badly in most nationwide polls in recent weeks. A new poll for Fox News released on Wednesday showed Biden leading by 9% and 11% respectively in key battleground states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The idea that the virus will still be a danger to public health in November also sits awkwardly with Trump's repeated claims over the last six months that it will disappear. As recently as mid-June, Trump had told Fox News that the virus "is fading away." In an interview with Fox's Chris Wallace earlier this month, he insisted "I’ll be right eventually. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right.”

Under the U.S. Constitution, the president has no power allowing him to delay the election. Federal elections are administered by state and local governments, although the specifics of how elections are conducted differ between the states. The Constitution and laws of the United States grant the states wide latitude in how they administer elections.

Latest comments

Alot Of Trump D**Ck Riders I See Here...
Hahahaha
Mentally *****up President of the most advance country in the world. Dont make mistake again in November. Make America Normal Again (MANA)..
Huh Delay??? come on...no Donkey Way....
He's hoping the voters forget how incompetent he is!
because he knows they will
I think Trump has a delayed dumb button on his phone.
Trump just hope Biden does not select Susan Rice as his vice for if she is chosen as his vice you are guaranteed to lose the November election then we can have a normal America again under the US, Biden and Susan Rice to lead world in a proper direction. You are not ok up there- lol
His proposal is to protect the voters... 👍
You Clown His Ideologies Are Based On Capitalism; Not The Public's Interest
Trump 2020
Brillant idea
loll. US's Dictator.
That's just a suggestion.
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