Can President Trump (or Jared Kushner) change Election Day from Nov. 3?

[pbmus]

NO, HELL NO, AND FUCK NO

During an interview Tuesday with Time Magazine, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser was asked if they had any plans to move or delay the election because of coronavirus, and he suggested they did: “I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan.”

But Election Day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November under federal statute. It would take an act of Congress to change the date. In other words, it’s not up to the president nor Kushner to say when the election will be held.

And after former vice president Joe Biden warned that he fears Trump would find some way to try to delay the election, the president didn’t seem so inclined: “The general election will happen on Nov. 3,” Trump said last month.

It’s possible Kushner misspoke, since he later clarified he knows of no plan to change the election date.

I hope the takeaway for you is that it would be very difficult to postpone it. Plus, more and more, states are looking at how to hold their elections by mailed ballots.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Absolutely not. Only Congress can change it, and

the states have their own procedures. About the only thing His Lardship can do is whine about the election bing "rigged" - but he'll have to haul his fat orange ass out of the WH on January 20, when he becomes a private citizen, or he'll be trespassing on government property and the federal marshals will drag him out, or maybe wheel him out on a hand truck like Hannibal Lecter.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Besides, we don't really need an election day, since the Electoral College actually elects..

the President, and each state has its own way of choosing electors.

[dawg day]

2. "Right now that's the plan"?

What's the plan? To delay?

These Trump people are so careless with their pronouncements. Of course, they probably want to confuse us.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Not really, They're just really stupid.

[BGBD]

5. nobody can

change it without amending the constitution.

Also, if no one gets a majority in the EC, the House decides the winner from the top 2. Basically a couple of states could hold elections and give Biden EC delegates, and the House could declare him the winner.

The Feds have no authority to stop any state from voting.

[bullimiami]

6. That was pretty damn clear. Arrogant putz.

[abqtommy]

7. At some point we're going to get motivated to flood out into the streets en masse. Any attempt

to implement this change/delay of elections just might do it. So bring it on, suckas!

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. ..and who the fuck is Kushner anyway?

He's just a wimpy little drip that married one of Trump's errant sperm sessions.

Fuck off, Jared.

[LizBeth]

9. Jared is so stupid, so uninformed, that he had no knowledge how all that works and

so just threw out noncommittal shit to avoid the answer.