Trump floats delaying the 2020 election 'until people can properly, securely and safely vote'
Source: Raw Story
Published 11 mins ago on July 30, 2020
By Brad Reed
Facebook
President Donald Trump on Thursday floated the idea of delaying the 2020 presidential election rather than allow people to vote by mail.
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history, the president wrote. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
The president at the moment is badly trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in election polls, due in large part to dissatisfaction with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which so far has killed more than 150,000 Americans in just five months.
Even if Trump wanted to delay the election, however, its not clear how he could do so without an act of Congress, as the current federal law mandates that the election be held on the first Tuesday after November 1st.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-floats-delaying-the-2020-election-until-people-can-properly-securely-and-safely-vote/
DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)F him!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Many have been warning for a number of years that the Republican Party is a serious fascist threat to our democratic republic. I can only hope that more people speak out and challenge these want-a-be Nazis before it too late. We can't rely on the Republican constituency. They have been literally brainwashed by forty years of extreme right wing propaganda. They have been convinced that anyone with progressive ideas are a threat and that only they are true patriots.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Around here, we're using paper ballots in our cars.
Vlad can go suck it!
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)BY BRETT SAMUELS - 07/30/20 08:59 AM EDT
President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the 2020 election, something he does not have the power to do unilaterally, as he levied fresh attacks against mail-in voting.
Trump, who is badly trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in national polls, framed the suggestion as a question, and argued that with more mail-in ballots there would be no fraud. There is no evidence to support the idea that either absentee or mail-in ballots contribute to voter fraud.
"With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," Trump tweeted. "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
The tweet marked the first time Trump has raised the idea of delaying the November election, an idea he previously rejected amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
More:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/509738-trump-suggests-delaying-election
Kingfisher86
(46 posts)Ghislaine Maxwell's records are being unsealed today. Coincidence?
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)2naSalit
(86,048 posts)And we have a winner! I was trying to figure that out, just got online and haven't seen all the news yet.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)There's also the disastrous interview he did with Jonathan Swan, admitting he hasn't said a word to Putin about the troop "bounty."
But yeah, it's Trump's flaming bag of dog poop on the front porch for Thursday.
gab13by13
(20,864 posts)the GDP numbers are what Trump wanted to hide, a whopping -32.9% The last previous record was -10%. The worst president Obama had was -2%. Also new unemployment claims are up again to 1.43 million.
Trump has a lot of economic ads he wants to run but they are just gathering dust.
LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)Yeah, that big blue line all the way to the right is why he's trying to distract.
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AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Continue to rise...but look over there!
Archae
(46,261 posts)He wants to become like so many other banana republicans, "president for life."
bucolic_frolic
(42,666 posts)Trump is not supporting the U.S. Constitution which he swore on a Bible to uphold, protect, and defend.
AllaN01Bear
(17,365 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)He should know from embarrassing.
Saviolo
(3,268 posts)Link to tweet
@tomtomorrow
looking forward to an entire day of people earnestly discussing what trump is or is not legally allowed to do as if that has ever mattered in the slightest
Girard442
(6,059 posts)UpInArms
(51,252 posts)F him
Pachamama
(16,874 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Ya crazy orange basturd!
This damn guy is somethin else, aint he? Watch him try to cut off funding for elections.
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)Jake Lahut 13 minutes ago
President Donald Trump floated the notion of postponing the November election in a tweet Thursday morning.
Trump does not have the authority to do so, but he once again used his platform to raise skepticism over his baseless theory over mail-in voting being "fraudulent."
Only an act of Congress could alter the federal statute on when states appoint their electors, which would be the most consequential way to move the timeline of the election.
Just 16 minutes before Trump tweeted, the second quarter economic data came out showing GDP plunging at a 33% annualized rate.
More:
https://www.businessinsider.com/president-trump-tweet-delay-election-mail-in-voting-2020-7
gab13by13
(20,864 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)mtngirl47
(985 posts)The Mouth
(3,123 posts)there's no such thing as 'bad publicity', it's a headline...
grantcart
(53,061 posts)If he is planning to get off the ticket he could be setting the rant why he 8snt going to stay
lark
(23,003 posts)He wants tons of death and dying and chaos and confusion so PUtin and he can steal the office once more, only a whole lot more violently this time. Red state governors are lined up behind him to ensure the election happens with the utmost possible confusion, frustration, risk to your life and violence in the blue cities in their states.
The Republicans are definitely working to steal the election. It is the only way they can win.
CrispyQ
(36,225 posts)My state has been doing it for a few election cycles now, & people love it!
In my county you can sign up for text alerts that let you know when the Election Division sent out your ballot, & again, when they receive it back. Besides mail, we have ballot drop-off boxes at places like the County Clerk & Recorders offices & the public libraries.
I do have a few issues with mail-in voting though. A bully in the household could confiscate all the ballots & vote them themselves, or people could sell their ballot. I realize the frequency of these things happening is small, but they couldn't happen at a precinct.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)duforsure
(11,882 posts)He has no authority to do that, and is done to suggest he has. More people will see this as very corrupt , and make more people run from trump and the Republican Party. He's weak and knows he's losing badly now, and this is just another desperate attempt to delay his being ousted with an embarrassing landslide against him. It won't work, and he'll be trying other things when he's told he can't win from election.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)RESIGN, take little Mikey with you and save taxpayers a boatload of money. He is losing, he knows it, we know it, the entire world knows it. Get out now.
amb123
(1,576 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)https://www.vote.org/absentee-voting-rules/
Even his own government says he's full of shit.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trumps-absentee-vs-mail-in-ballot-spin/ "the president is wrong to repeatedly insist that absentee ballots like the one he said he cast in March include a very strict process that mail-in ballots do not"
Former Republican head of DHS Tom Ridge:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/fact-check-trump-absentee-versus-mail-ballots/index.html
Don't let the illegal attempt to postpone the election allow him to get away with the "mail-in is not absentee" bullshit.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)bluewater
(5,376 posts)Pack your bags, Donald.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)FU.....................we are voting.......
PatSeg
(46,794 posts)He's had another really bad week and HIS economy is breaking records, but not in a good way. The man loves superlatives and now pretty much everything is the worst "people have ever seen", including his presidency.
Trump is losing and losing badly and his solution is to "delay the election"? Which dictator's handbook did he get that one from?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)elected or not , there is no acting or temporary provision. He can either walk or be carried out. Those are the only constitutional provisions.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,141 posts)Does he really want that to happen?
Paper Roses
(7,468 posts)If I live long enough, I will be in line to cast me vote in November. To hell with the 'by mail' stuff, I don't trust that boxes will be found uncounted. My town has paper ballots. I'll be there on line as soon as the polls open.
Can I tell you how much I dislike this idiot we have to call pResident. I have that funny feeling that this was planned.
Call me negative but I've seen too many of his shenanigans to swallow this one.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)Kris Mac
(16 posts)The only help that he may possibly get is from the police unions. But, the pentagon won't go for this, not for a minute. And, there is the obvious...the constitution forbids it.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,849 posts)liberalmuse
(18,670 posts)8 hours a day, 5 days a week, but it's dangerous to let people go to the polls for an hour or 2 on one day to vote. Oh, and absentee ballots are okay but mail-in ballots are FRAUD! This man is a stale joke.
CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)It's what he said to do, right?
samsingh
(17,571 posts)a winner does not want to postpone.
and they don't care of safety - see the other elections that the repugs thought they could win that were NOT postponed
this traitor in fact wanted to have in person events until recently.
he has admitted he has lost. his base should stay at home.
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)and take spineless R Pence with you.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Next week would be good. Tomorrow would be better!! The sooner we get that trainload of shit OUT of the White House, the better off the whole world will be!
NEOBuckeye
(2,778 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)"We cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
Lincoln didn't cause the divisions in our country; he merely sought to act on them. Trump created and exacerbated divisions.
Lincoln faced a war by the die hard racists who betrayed their country, a war in 600,000 people died. Trump faces a plague that he incompetently exacerbated.
This mindless twerp, as his niece pointed out, has avoided responsibility for actions in his entire live.
He needs to die in prison, in a small cell, with a steel toilet.
klook
(12,134 posts)doesnt let this imbecilic wannabe Saddam keep this up for long.
NNadir
(33,368 posts)djacq
(1,633 posts)Deplorable.
mjvpi
(1,384 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,238 posts)raccoon
(31,089 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)dchill
(38,320 posts)I'm sure it will be.
Roc2020
(1,603 posts)grabbing at straws. he is dangerous. not even a war can change the election day. Keep him away from the nuclear codes.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
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GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)Not only has the chairman of the FEC said it's not going to happen, but here's an analysis that's pretty cogent.
https://qr.ae/pNsZrU
Talitha
(6,477 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)Bettie
(15,998 posts)November 3rd.
Well, except for the absentee ballots which can be filled out earlier.
Rizen
(703 posts)and so are republicans for supporting him. I want those worthless shit stains out of the government.