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(36,926 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)I guess it has come to this. How low can we go?
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)I don't care if Trump doesn't like it.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... who have passionately maintained that Тяцмр cannot or will not try to postpone the election, here is your foreshadowing of that effort.
I agree that he cant legally do it. And I mostly agree that he wont be able to actually pull it off. And Ill concede that there is a chance that hes just gaslighting the issue to distract.
But he is most likely floating a trial balloon here, and anyone who thinks he and his cabal are not looking into this has not been paying attention to his political MO.
Things are going to get pretty interesting in the next 3 months.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)I can't take much of of interesting.
pandr32
(11,625 posts)Stress level is getting pretty high.
Lonestarblue
(10,095 posts)Theres too much to reproduce here, but the president cannot postpone with an executive order and the conditions for imposing martial law (under which the election could still be held) are unlikely. That said, Trump will not pay attention to what is legal.
Heres the link. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/presidential-election-postponed/
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... suggesting that there is a way for him to do it legitimately. But he has enablers at all levels of government. And they will try something for the history books. That I believe.
mahannah
(893 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)The U.S. Constitution gives the power to regulate the time, place and manner of elections to the U.S. House and Senate, with Congress also empowered to alter the rules. Nowhere is the president granted such power.
In addition, the Constitution spells out a hard end to a presidents term on Jan. 20 in the year following a presidential election.
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)and Absentee Voting? I vote absentee and have since 2004. I requested an absentee ballot and have a standing order for that. I receive it in the mail quite a while before the actual Election Day. I fill it out, follow directions for closing the envelope, sign and date, add postage and drop in the mail to be postmarked by a Election Day. I can go online in a few days to see if the ballot has been delivered.
So how is voting by mail different? Dont registered voters get the ballot in the mail? Dont they fill it out at home? Dont they follow instructions of how to return the ballot which one option is to mail it back, making sure it is postmarked by a Election Day?
So what is the difference that makes Vote by Mail such a problem? Other than making it easier and safer for voters to vote.
He is full of sh*t. 💩💩💩
LisaL
(44,974 posts)a lot of people vote, he will be voted out. Naturally during a pandemic, a lot of people prefer to vote by mail as to not risk getting covid.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)VBM works well and increases participation.
Which is exactly what he doesn't want.
pandr32
(11,625 posts)Since he gets so much wrong and also lies freely he should be challenged to give concrete examples of fraud and asked if he votes by mail. The media needs to also confront his party representatives with the same.
Get them all on record.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)They have anecdotes, that's it.
Fucking UTAH votes 100% by mail.
pandr32
(11,625 posts)...but we need to be aggressive and show how evasive and deceptive he and all his Republican ass-kissers can be.
TommyCelt
(838 posts)... before he deployed this tactic. He is cornered and afraid. Like a trapped animal, he will become more dangerous to extract.
If there is no election by January 20th, Speaker Pelosi will be sworn in as President. This trump has NO power to circumvent Congress on this, without literally shredding the Constitution.
Johnny2X2X
(19,140 posts)He's saying mail in voting will be fraudulent and that's why he is floating a delay.
He's insane and has zero chance of delaying the election, but he's not saying it's because of Covid-19 he wants the delay.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)Next his flying monkeys will link Libtard concerns about opening schools in the face of CV-19 with his "suggestion" that the election be delayed.
You see, WE'RE the hypocrites.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)And very few of his sugar daddies wore masks.........
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)nm
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)stuff!!
KS Toronado
(17,355 posts)Come on rats, raise your hands!
catbyte
(34,472 posts)FakeNoose
(32,791 posts)... with the mailed-in voting (absentee voting) the fraud will be done by the Repukes.
However I do understand that the Lincoln Project guys were making the point about school safety. Why is Chump willing to risk the safety of the school children, and the teachers? Chump suggests that we need to "delay" the election ... but go right ahead and open the schools.
sanatanadharma
(3,739 posts)"Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
He may not specifically mention the pandemic but he is stoking Covid-19 fears in his rankest ranks.
The tweet is a call to arms to his "base" followers.
The Constitution exists only in the determined-acceptance of citizens to that ideal, not an ideal base upon which to bet paper can stop coup.
dchill
(38,556 posts)He just wants to make it irrelevant. At any rate, the human sacrifice must continue!
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Wait, I thought he said Covid was nothing to worry about.