nyt: Kushner, Law Aside, Doesn't Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election

[riversedge]

I wish reporters would stop asking this question and speculating about it!

Kushner, Law Aside, Doesn’t Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/kushner-election-november.html?referringSource=articleShare

The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held, but his comment played into the concerns of President Trump’s detractors.


By Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman

May 12, 2020

WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, refused on Tuesday to rule out postponing the presidential election in November, a comment that fed directly into Democratic concerns that President Trump might use the coronavirus crisis to delay or delegitimize the contest and one that contradicted Mr. Trump himself.

“I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan,” Mr. Kushner told Time magazine in response to a question about whether the election could be postponed because of the pandemic.

The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held. Even the president himself does not have the authority to unilaterally postpone Election Day, which by law takes place the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

ELECTION DISRUPTIONS
Postponing or canceling the general election is highly unlikely. Here’s what that entails.

But Mr. Kushner’s comment raised alarms both because of the expansive power Mr. Trump has conferred on members of his family who serve in his administration and because it played into the worst anxieties of Mr. Trump’s detractors — that the president would begin to question the validity of the election if he feared he was going to lose.......................
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Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, this week at the Rose Garden. On Monday, the White House ordered all West Wing employees to wear masks unless they are sitting at their desks.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
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[gordianot]

1. I agree this little POS slum lord should be either ignored or ridiculed.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Constitutionally a new potus needs to be sworn in by jan 20th

[bullimiami]

3. exactly. trump is no longer president on jan 21 and pence no longer vp.

election or no, the next in line would be speaker of house.

[Proud liberal 80]

9. Technically

If there were no election, there would be no speaker either since all House seats are up this election, too. So wouldn’t it fall to the president pro temp of the Senate?

Again this is all hypothetical because we know canceling the election can’t happen

[aeromanKC]

10. That would be the Senate Pro Tem if he wasn't up for election this year

If no election only those who still have time on their previously elected term would still be in office.Thay counts out all House members as well as all executive members . I think Grassley is current Senate Pro Tem.

[johnthewoodworker]

13. I wish I had your confidence. It looks like this white house, along with the republican senate, and

potentially, the supreme court is not too impressed with constitutional expectations. Things have been so bizarre the last three and a half years that I don't expect that we have anything close to a normal election, or post election period. I'll certainly keep my fingers crossed.

[mitch96]

25. "Doesn't Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election"

Delay it b/c of why? If in their mind the virus is not a problem.... Why cx or move the election... everything is fine...
If they DO say it's b/c of the virus then they are admitting they have failed and change is needed...
Jan 20... is 252 days away...

[Jamastiene]

4. Excuse him?

Fuck that little pinhead. I hope I live long enough to see karma come back at him and all of Trump's worshipers/supporters/family.

[still_one]

6. +++, and I would the republicans in Congress to that list. If we get out the vote in November

that would be the best answer those sociopaths

[Jamastiene]

12. Yes, the rest of the Republicans too.

None of them are any good at this point. They've shown who they really are. I hope their karma is swift enough to run over their dogma.

[still_one]

5. WTF is this jackass qualified for anyway?

[Vinca]

14. Mannequin. He should go back to NYC and stand in a store window.

[still_one]

15. +++ LOL!!!

[oldsoftie]

18. But that would frighten shoppers.

Never could see what Ivanka saw in this dweeb. She could have had ANYONE. Corrupt or not.

[EndlessWire]

33. LOL! n/t

[kairos12]

37. Extra on any Vampire movie.

[karynnj]

26. Slum lord

He had lots of experience at this and worked hard to make life hard for his tenants.

[barbtries]

7. he's as sick as his father in law.

that he has so much power is terrifying.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Creepy looking little shit 😳 has no authority to do that and neither does his evil fil

[MissMillie]

11. "law aside"

I swear these guys wake up every day w/ some thought of how to put the "law aside"

[bigtree]

16. maggie haberman

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...using Kushner to stir shit is disgusting.

You'd think they'd take an actual investigative stance here, given the NYT's resources, and given the huge gulf in information about what Kushner has actually been doing with taxpayer's money from his WH office, but they've chosen instead to gaslight us with this parasite.

Link to tweet

[llmart]

17. I can't wait for the day we no longer have to see this ugly punchable face any longer.

No one elected him or his plastic, vapid wife who have never contributed anything to better our world, so the sooner we are rid of the entire criminal family the better for our mental health and the health of our democracy.

[PaulRevere08]

27. The Germans have a great expression for this. Backpfeifengesicht

Roughly means "a face that needs a punch".

[llmart]

28. LOL!

Never heard that one and what a wonderful word. My maternal roots are from Germany and my son lived there for awhile and is fluent in German. I'll have to ask him if he's ever heard that word.

[burrowowl]

39. Love German compound words

[Aviation Pro]

19. Who the fuck cares

What an unelected fuckwit and future convict says about the election?

[llmart]

30. "unelected fuckwit and future convict"

I honestly would love it if he was the first convicted and sent to jail in an orange jumpsuit, even above and beyond wanting the orange one because the orange one will die soon (hopefully) from his obvious health conditions and adderal abuse.

[uponit7771]

31. +1

[noneof_theabove]

20. not going to happen

only Congress can declare a war - calling a health crisis a "war on an invisible enemy" does not qualify

The idiots think they are "gods"

Just another example of letting their alligator mouth overload their hummingbird ass.

[Timmygoat]

23. I have to say

This jerk makes me want to throw up, also his so called wife. Has anyone known another presidency
that had all of the stupid family on the payroll?

[ok_cpu]

21. And yet they have fully committed

to holding their Nuremberg Ra...er convention on time.

Every time I see an arts or literature article and am tempted to resubscribe to the NYT, they publish something like this from Haberman and remind me why I canceled.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. "right now that's the plan". Democrats should be on notice. But there is a logical inconsistency

Mind you, logical inconsistencies are too complex for Trumpians to see.

Either the country is ready to open up the economy including holding elections or it is not and elections should include very large mail-in voting.

Either way, the elections can and should go ahead on November 3, 2020.

[duforsure]

24. Asking a member of an organized criminal family this question

Is telling what their sole intentions are , and Jared along with all the trumps and family act like they are above the rule of law, just ask them. If the Supreme Court Justices allow them no consequences and no over site , watch how long before they become unable to stop him bypassing Congress, openly attack and force judges, including Supreme Court and lifetime appointed ones out with his corrupt loyalists like Barr . Can a Supreme Court Justice by helping a criminal president further commit criminal acts be charged and removed for organized crimes , and conspiring?

[hotrod0808]

29. This story is bullshit.

Only Congress can delay an election. Do you really think Nancy Pelosi will go for that? Not to mention that Kushner is a sub-moronic dilettante with a bent toward the criminal side of business. This is just The Times drumming up clicks by stoking fear. Don't fall for it.

[roamer65]

41. Congress cannot delay it either.

The election is a state power. The Constitution states when it will happen, but no power of postponement is granted to the federal government.

Therefore it is a state power by default.

[Mike 03]

32. Who even asked such a stupid question?

This is how the process of normalizing something heinous begins.

[AllaN01Bear]

34. its not up to him, its congress that has the power. hes not even in the cabinet.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Shame on the NYT putting out this bullshit.

It's nothing but a huge distraction from FAR MORE pressing issues. Fuck them.

[Blaukraut]

38. Look who wrote it.

Maggie "I have access" Haberman and Annie Carni. Have you ever seen Carni interviewed on MSNBC? She makes me want to slap that smug, shit-eating grin off her face when she talks about Trump and his antics. She seems to think all of this is terribly funny.

[ehrnst]

36. HRC weighs in

[roamer65]

40. God I miss her.

[dalton99a]

44. +1. Kushner belongs in prison

[roamer65]

42. The power to delay or even not hold elections resides in the states.

States don’t even have to hold a vote for the presidency. The state legislatures can simply vote on a slate of electors to send to the Electoral College, without an election.

Has this ever happened in American history? Yes. Colorado in 1876.

[dalton99a]

43. "I'll tell you when you can have elections"

and who to vote for

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Not the little shit's place to say

Nor is it his big shit father-in-law's place to say either. If we can vote during a civil war we certainly can during a pandemic.