Top Republican leaders want no part of President Donald Trump’s suggestion to delay November’s election, a move he does not have the power to make on his own.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” Trump tweetedThursday morning to his 84 million Twitter followers. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
The tweet is part of an argument the president has been making against mail-in voting, which has been widely instituted across the US because of the coronavirus. Trump, who voted by mail this year, has baselessly argued that mail-in voting is ripe for fraud. Last week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called the long delays in the New York mail-in ballot process in the state’s primary an “absolute catastrophe,” confirming the fears of voting experts and political strategists that Trump will use any mail-in delays to question the legitimacy of November’s election.
Källa: Top Republicans Aren’t Backing Trump’s Idea To Delay The Election
