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Trump Suggests Delaying US Presidential Election

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   For the first time, U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting delaying
   this year's election.
   Trump, on Twitter on Thursday morning, alleged, without evidence, that
   mail-in balloting would be make the 2020 presidential balloting the
   "most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."
   The president added: "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA.
   Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely
   vote???

     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) [1]July 30, 2020

   The president does not have the power to delay the election, which is
   to be held November 3rd. The date is set by Congress under the
   Constitution.
   Delaying the election would violate American law, wrote presidential
   historian Michael Beschloss on Twitter.
   "Never in American history--not even during the Civil War and World War
   II--has there been a successful move to 'Delay the Election' for
   President," said Beschloss, the author of ten books about American
   history.

     Never in American history--not even during the Civil War and World
     War II--has there been a successful move to "Delay the Election" for
     President.
     -- Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) [2]July 30, 2020

   Polls indicate Trump is significantly trailing the presumptive
   Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden in key battleground states.
   The director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
   Agency, Chris Krebs, told the Brookings Institution on July 17th, "I've
   said it before, and I'll say it again. The 2020 election will be the
   most secure election in modern history."

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1288822968613773314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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