“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 tweeted 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???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
As expected, this caused an untold number of safe spaces around the country to fill to capacity.
Even a number of Republicans were lost in the words and obvious to the strategy.
Democrats control the House of Representatives, making it extremely unlikely the election date will change. And Republicans who hold the Senate quickly dismissed the idea.
“Never in the history of the country — through wars, depressions and the Civil War — have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time. And we’ll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told a local TV station.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said, “We’ve had elections every November since about 1788, and I expect that will be the case again this year.”
And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also rejected changing the date, but said, “I understand the president’s concern about mail-in voting.”
A 1948 law says states must select presidential electors on “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November” and that the Electoral College must meet on “the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.”
Trump suggests delaying presidential election over possible voter fraud
The 20th Amendment to the Constitution says the president and vice president’s terms end on Jan. 20.George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who assisted in Trump’s defense during his Senate impeachment trial, said, “Trump is not claiming that he can unilaterally stop the election in this tweet.”
“That does not make this any more acceptable but both candidates are fueling conspiracy theories with these remarks,” Turley said, a reference also to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden recently speculating that Trump “is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held.”
Let’s be clear: Trump does not have the ability to delay the election. Our elections are enshrined in the Constitution. The Constitution also says that if the date of the election is to be changed, it must be changed by Congress. https://t.co/WzVgBQqdSo
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) July 30, 2020
Fact Check: You can’t do that.
The Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to set the election date.
And we will do everything we can to ensure all Americans can vote — safely and securely — on November 3.
No matter what nonsense you tweet. https://t.co/vukxaptGLM
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 30, 2020
(ALERT) Mike Pompeo just testified under oath that *Barr* will decide if Trump—despite having no constitutional authority to do so—can *announce* he's moving the election.
Read that sentence multiple times and then retweet this. We're witnessing a historic threat to rule of law.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 30, 2020
Mail-In Voting is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster. Even testing areas are way off. The Dems talk of foreign influence in voting, but they know that Mail-In Voting is an easy way for foreign countries to enter the race. Even beyond that, there’s no accurate count!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Source: NY Post
Image: Gage Skidmore
Declare Marshall Law, arrest and deliver to Gitmo ALL demonic party congressmen and women who have been involved in treasonous activity, capture George Soros and charge him with attempted coup and overthrow of our government and put him to death, declare antifa and BLM Marxist operatives terrorists and capture as many as possible, and issue an EO that ONLY properly identified and requested absentee ballots and in person voting will be considered LEGAL, UNLESS a state has ALREADY had a working process in place for mail in ballots in PRIOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Then and only then will we cut down on the amount of fraud.