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2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Floats Whether to 'Delay the Election,' Something He Cannot Legally Do
Trailing badly in the polls, the president baselessly suggested the November election would be "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT" in history.
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President Trump suggested in a tweet on Thursday that the vote be delayed "until people can properly, securely and safely vote." Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Trump suggests a 'delay' in the November election.
Since the pandemic began, Democrats have feared that President Trump would seek to cancel or postpone November's general election. On Thursday, for the first time, Mr. Trump in a tweet suggested the vote be delayed "until people can properly, securely and safely vote," something he cannot legally do.
Even for Mr. Trump, suggesting a delay in the election is an extraordinary breach of presidential decorum that will increase the chances that Mr. Trump and his core supporters don't accept the legitimacy of the election should he lose to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
"With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," Mr. Trump wrote. "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
Mr. Trump has no authority to unilaterally change the date of the election, which is set by federal law. His suggestion comes as polls show him trailing far behind former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in surveys of nearly all of the key battleground states. And Mr. Trump's claim that mail voting leads to inaccurate counts or fraud is false.
But the president's sustained attacks on mail voting, combined with Democratic efforts to encourage more of their voters to request and submit absentee ballots by mail, has led to a significant Democratic advantage in mail voting. In April, the liberal candidate for a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race performed about 10 percentage points better in ballots cast by mail than she did on Election Day, according to a New York Times analysis of the returns.
While the White House has officially denied Mr. Trump has any interest in changing the date of the election from Nov. 3, some of his allies and top aides have on occasion floated the possibility.
During the presidential primaries, states that shifted their balloting largely to the mail saw far larger voter turnout than did states that held their contests primarily in person. In Montana, which sent ballots to every registered voter in the state, 63 percent of registered voters cast ballots, the highest percentage in the nation, according to the National Vote at Home Institute, which encourages voting by mail. Seven of the nine lowest-turnout states held contests primarily in person, the institute found"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/elections/biden-vs-trump.html?referringSource=highlightShare
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2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Floats Whether to 'Delay the Election,' Something He Cannot Legally Do
Trailing badly in the polls, the president baselessly suggested the November election would be "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT" in history.
RIGHT NOWPresident Trump suggested for the first time on Thursday that the November election be delayed.
Here's what you need to know:
Trump suggests a 'delay' in the November election.
The president's absence at John Lewis's funeral: Not a surprise, and part of a tradition.
Obama unleashes on his successor privately as he raises piles of cash for Biden.
Trump plays on racist fears of the suburbs under siege as he courts white voters.
Why the president's blunt appeals to suburban voters may not work.
Bloomberg's gun control group will release new ads geared toward Latinos in swing states.
As Covid-19 became a red-state problem, too, how did attitudes change?
Image
President Trump suggested in a tweet on Thursday that the vote be delayed "until people can properly, securely and safely vote." Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Trump suggests a 'delay' in the November election.
Since the pandemic began, Democrats have feared that President Trump would seek to cancel or postpone November's general election. On Thursday, for the first time, Mr. Trump in a tweet suggested the vote be delayed "until people can properly, securely and safely vote," something he cannot legally do.
Even for Mr. Trump, suggesting a delay in the election is an extraordinary breach of presidential decorum that will increase the chances that Mr. Trump and his core supporters don't accept the legitimacy of the election should he lose to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
"With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," Mr. Trump wrote. "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
Mr. Trump has no authority to unilaterally change the date of the election, which is set by federal law. His suggestion comes as polls show him trailing far behind former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in surveys of nearly all of the key battleground states. And Mr. Trump's claim that mail voting leads to inaccurate counts or fraud is false.
But the president's sustained attacks on mail voting, combined with Democratic efforts to encourage more of their voters to request and submit absentee ballots by mail, has led to a significant Democratic advantage in mail voting. In April, the liberal candidate for a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race performed about 10 percentage points better in ballots cast by mail than she did on Election Day, according to a New York Times analysis of the returns.
While the White House has officially denied Mr. Trump has any interest in changing the date of the election from Nov. 3, some of his allies and top aides have on occasion floated the possibility.
During the presidential primaries, states that shifted their balloting largely to the mail saw far larger voter turnout than did states that held their contests primarily in person. In Montana, which sent ballots to every registered voter in the state, 63 percent of registered voters cast ballots, the highest percentage in the nation, according to the National Vote at Home Institute, which encourages voting by mail. Seven of the nine lowest-turnout states held contests primarily in person, the institute found"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/elections/biden-vs-trump.html?referringSource=highlightShare
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