Voters cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 at the North Hollywood Recreation Center. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the November election as he continued to raise the false specter of widespread voting fraud.
“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???” he tweeted.
CHRIS MEGERIAN of the Los Angeles Times newspaper reports that there is no evidence to support Trump’s claims of voting fraud on a massive scale, and adjusting the date of the election would be difficult, if not impossible.
However, the suggestion was an alarming indication that Trump is considering ways to prolong his stay in office as the country reels from a deadly pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
He tweeted about the election shortly after new data showed the economy shrank by a record one-third in the last quarter.
Trump has also been badly trailing in the polls behind Joe Biden, the likely Democratic candidate and former vice president.
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