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In a bad position in the polls, President Trump has laid no basis for suggesting that the November election would be fraudulent. Former President Barack Obama needs to make radical adjustments to expand voting rights.
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President Trump refused to give up his previous suggestion on the day of postponing the election, which he did have the strength to order, and which most sensible Republicans temporarily rejected.
In a White House appearance that apparently over the coronavirus, Trump ignored a day of revulsion from some of his closest allies, who said the election would take place in November as planned, and attacked the mailing process. vote, a service you’ve already used.
“Millions of universal ballots are sent. Hundreds of millions,” Trump said. “Where are you going? Who are they sending them to? You have nothing to know about politics.”
Trump tried to back up his claims by pointing to delayed vote counts and rejection of mailed votes in some state primaries, his claim that mail voting leads to mis-counting or fraud is false.
It also greatly overesvalued the number of ballots that would be needed (only about 138 million Americans voted in 2016) and continued to review to cast doubt on the electoral process. “I don’t need a crooked election,” Trump said, referring to allowing Americans to use the vote by mail. “This will be the ultimate rigged choice in history if this happens.”
The president gave the impression of forgetting the rebukes of Republican leaders and allies, who spent the day noting that Trump had no authority to move the election.
“Never in the history of the federal election has we held elections and moved on,” said Rep. Kevin McCarthy, leader of the parliamentary minority.
Senator Mitch McConnell, a majority leader, rejected Trump’s suggestion in an interview with WNKY tv in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
“Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions and civil war, have we had a federal election scheduled in time, and we will have a way to do it this November 3,” McConnell told me.
Even for Trump, suggesting a postponement of the election is an ordinary violation of democratic norms that will increase the chances that he and his most sensitive supporters will not conform to the legitimacy of the election if he loses to former Vice President Joseph R. . Biden Jr.
Biden, speaking to members of the Democratic National Committee and conference delegates on a conference call Thursday, did not respond to Trump’s tweet. At the White House, Trump has attacked him, falsely claiming that Biden opposes hydraulic fracturing. (It’s not.)
Later that night, however, Biden raised the factor in a virtual fundraiser. “By the way, when those numbers have gotten worse, what have you done today?” Biden said. “He asked not to have an election on November 3. You need to postpone the election. Well, it’s for two reasons. First, he believes it,” Biden said, and second, he suggested, because Trump was looking to damage the funeral that day for John Lewis, a former congressman and civil rights icon.
Several critics of the president warned Thursday that he sought to distract from the bad news about the economy. Trump posted on Twitter minutes after commerce announced that the country’s gross domestic product, the largest measure of goods and production, had fallen 9.5 percent in the 3 months ending June 30, the largest quarterly drop on record.
“With the universal mail vote (not the mail vote, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE AND FRAUDULENT election in history,” Trump wrote. “It will be a wonderful disgrace to America. Delay elections until others can vote properly, safely and safely?”
Instead of backtracking on criticism, Trump posted the tweet on his Twitter profile.
Trump does not have the strength to unilaterally replace the date of the election, which is set by federal law. His suggestion comes when surveys show him away from Biden in surveys of almost every parent state on the battlefield.
“Only Congress can replace the date of our elections, and under no circumstances will we do so to take into account the president’s inept and random reaction to the coronavirus pandemic,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat and chairman of the board. who oversees the election.
So far, no Republican primary official has publicly endorsed Trump’s proposal, even though she has refrained from criticizing the president.
Even Fox News, a staunch best friend of Trump’s whom the president watches for hours at the White House, interpreted his proposal as a sign that the president is fighting.
“It is a fragrant and flagrant expression of his current weakness,” Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt said during a Fox News broadcast Thursday morning. “A person who is in a strong position would never, never suggest anything like that. So Trump may be making a tactical error here by further telegraphing his weak position in the polls and his weak position for re-election.”
It is unclear how seriously Trump thinks there deserves to be a discussion about converting the election date. Makes ordinary proposals only to withdraw from them after mastering wired data cycles.
Trump’s sustained mail-in voting attacks, combined with more physically powerful democratic efforts to inspire the electorate to request and mail ballots, have led to significant Democratic merit in mail-in voting requests for the primaries. And in the midst of the pandemic, the states that transferred their vote largely to the post office had a much greater stake than the states that held their contests mainly in person.
While giving a eulogy at the funeral of former Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta on Thursday, former President Barack Obama for a radical extension of voting rights.
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