He can’t….
Only Congress can ….
If Congress doesn’t?
The President’s term is up come January 20th after the election….
The wall’s ARE closing in on Donald Trump and he’s trying to run excuses…
Anybody think Democrats in the House would go along with this?
This IS a admittance that he’s sure his time is running out…
And it comes back to Congress in the end…
The people he had no use for….
Somewhere Nancy Pelosi IS smiling….
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 president’s term on Jan. 20 in the year following a presidential election.
Trump’s tweet came shortly after a report was released showing the U.S. economy shrank 9.5 percent from April through June, the largest quarterly decline since the government began publishing data 70 years ago, and the latest, sobering reflection of the pandemic’s economic devastation.
It was not clear from Trump’s tweets whether he intends to ask Congress to move the date of the election or if he believes he can act on his own.
As more states have turned to mail-in voting in response the pandemic, Trump has repeatedly sought to undermine the method, often with unsubstantiated claims. He has attacked mail voting nearly 70 times since late March in interviews, remarks and tweets, including at least 17 times this month, according to a tally by The Washington Post.
Trump has also argued that mail-in voting tends to hurt Republicans at the ballot box.
Democrats quickly suggested that Trump’s suggestion reflected a realization that he could lose to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who has been leading in national and many battleground state polls.
“Donald Trump is terrified,” tweeted Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is among those being considered as a running mate for Biden. “He knows he’s going to lose to @JoeBiden. It will require every single one of us to make that happen.We will see you at the ballot box on November 3rd, @realDonaldTrump.”…
Note….
With this admission that he KNOWS he’s in trouble ?
Will Republican lawmakers in Congress begin to seriously walk away from supporting their party leader to try and save themselves…Or?….Will they go down with the Trump ship….
The Trump ‘juice’ should be flowing away from him in increase force ?
Donald Trump , true to form appears to about to fuck something else up as his history has shown he does quite often…
Shame on the Republicans that rode/ride in his bus…
image…NYPost.Com
Yes,shame on them!
And for sure Trump can’t “postpone” the election but that’s not the Point.
The point is he’s talking about it.Nows the time to hit these Republican Hypocrites and hit them hard.Everyone of them in Congress should be calked upon you denounce the crypto authoritarian creep theyve been backing these past four years
Amusingly, Trump and many Republicans insist that this pandemic is no big deal and are demanding that life go on as usual;thus, why in the world would there be talk of delaying the Election?
He’s been holding on to this Tweet for just the right moment and the bad economic news this morning was the right timing to find something to try to start a distraction.
Trump is now Tweeting an endorsement of a pizza shop in Long Island.
This is possibly illegal of course for him to be doing this from the White House.
First GOP House member to jump ship on Trump election throw down effort…
A Republican lawmaker broke with President Trump on Thursday and said he would oppose any attempts to delay the November election after Trump floated the idea.
“Reminder: Election dates are set by Congress,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) tweeted in response to the president. “And I will oppose any attempts to delay the #2020Election.”
Kinzinger’s tweet came after Trump in a tweet Wednesday morning pitched the idea of delaying the election — something he does not have the power to do….
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That’s one–we almost 200 more Republican Congressmen and 53 Republican Senators to join him
Lets see Scott….
I’m curious…
I’n close races and GOPer lawmakers in Blue places I doubt they say anything or back Trump on this…
CSPAN
@cspan
GOPLeader: “I understand the president’s concern about mail-in voting, which is different than absentee voting, but never in the history of the federal elections have we ever not held an election and we should go forward with our election.”
A House Republican Leader made this statement…
This should a closed door….
Trump’s juice is running out folks….
mail in voting and absentee voting are exactly the same thing.
Yes, there is more of a risk for problems if more people are doing it. After all, absentee (aka mail in voting) relies on the honor system, These are fairly unusual times though and perhaps unique exceptions have to be made.
Republicans should be organizing their vote by mail operation. By fighting against the reality of it and thus encouraging people not to take advantage of it, they are going to cause a lot of Republicans to lose.
What he is not realizing is that if the election is “delayed” and nobody is certified before January 20, he still has to leave and Nancy Pelosi (or whoemver is Speaker) becomes President.
Does he not even want to try to win at this point?
Sen. Jon Cornyn is already saying that Trump’s tweet was a “joke” and he just did it to make the hated librul media’s heads explode.
What a complete POS!
It should be treated as a “joke.”
There’s nothing remotely serious about it or realistic in terms of his authority.
Trump will be in feral cat mode until this election and it will become more obvious by the day and people will be begging for the sideshow to end.
I mean, no one’s laughing. Then again conservatives aren’t known for having great senses of humor. For proof just watch the 2008 movie
“An American Carol” with Kelsey Grammer.
Punching down just isn’t funny. And neither is this excuse of a President and the GOP minions who defend him.
It wasn’t a joke…….
He NOW knows he HAS to leave..
Editors should stop with the ‘what happens if he doesn’t leave’ bull shit….
Trump should be laughed at and mocked just like Charlie Chaplin mocked Hitler (no I am not saying that Trump is as bad as Hitler although the others here might disagree). By all means, use the official instruments of democracy to remove him from office, but his ridiculous trolling Tweets should be seen for what they are and he should be laughed at over them.
McConnell joins others in going thumbs down on Trump’s desperate grasp….
This IS DOA…..
BTW?
My son called me and asked WTF was Trump thinking when he admitted that he’s gonna lose?
if you are losing in a board game and your reaction is to just turn the board over, making all the pieces fall off, and then storm off and say “well now I can’t lose…”
That’s pretty much what we are going to see. Will he actually quit the race though?
You guys better hope he doesn’t.
Nah he won’t quit. If anything this is setting him up to blame Republicans for not being on board with delaying the election. It will be a big pity party where he declares himself and his people “too good” for American politics.
Hey Scott?
Maybe he SHOULD quit on Jan 18th and let Pence pardon him for all his sins?
And then he don’t have to give a excuse for not attending Biden’s swearing in….
No CG….
Trump IS SERIOUS I think….
Delusional …
But Serious..
Trump has few friends….
Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Commissioner Ellen Weintraub flatly stated on Thursday that the executive branch does not have the power to delay a presidential election after President Trump stirred an uproar by raising the idea in an early morning tweet.
“No, Mr. President. No,” Weintraub said in a statement shared on Twitter. “You don’t have the power to move the election. Nor should it be moved.”
“States and localities are asking you and Congress for funds so they can properly run the safe and secure elections all Americans want,” she added. “Why don’t you work on that?”…
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@ CG what Pizza Shop in LI…There are a lot of good ones, curious which one he is hyping up…
On a serious note, I enjoy the Lincoln Project Adds…they really hitting the Republicans hard and the line in the sand the founder drew about being against Trump is pretty interesting…Just read an article where he went ape shit on all those Republicans as he said grumble in Private, but in public “bend the knee” and don the Red MAGA hat…I couldn’t of said it any better than that about the Republicans in Congress
Patio Pizza in St James
it will probably be a mob scene there today between supporters and protestors.
Any business, culinary or personal connection to the pizzeria in Washington, D.C., where QAnon said that HRC was running a paedophile conspiracy [Pizzagate] ?
Did Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislane Maxwell ever leave Manhattan to “eat” there ?
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!
So, he will concede on Election Night?
The longer he goes on these tangents, the more he is hurting down ballot Republicans. Democrat plant all along?
More Trump losing his support….
The once rock-solid grip that the president had on his party seems to be slipping. Talking with pollsters and strategists from both sides this week, it’s clear that Trump is suffering not just with Democrats and independents but also with GOP voters. They tell us of polling that shows Trump underwater in districts he carried easily in 2016. One GOP strategist told me that even in heavily Republican districts, Trump’s job approval rating among Republicans has dropped 10-20 points. The KFF poll released last week found Trump’s overall job approval rating among Republicans dropped 12 points between May and July. On handling coronavirus, the drop in GOP support was an even more dramatic 26 points. …
More @ Cook Political Report
I remember that I said on here as soon as Democrats started talking about the Wisconsin vote a few months ago (which included judicial general elections), that Trump would one day try to play this card.
CG nailed the description with the board game analogy…nuff said…
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
If Trump keeps implying (or just stating outright) that the election will be rigged, one wonders if some of his supporters might not bother to show up.
A founder of the Federalist Society, who voted for Trump, opposed his impeachment, and who continued to support him to this day, now says he should be impeached over suggesting the election be delayed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/trump-delay-election-coronavirus.html
But will he vote for Biden? Will you?
Neither will.
They’re from the Susan Collins School of Politics.
They’re “concerned.”
Trump is undermining the USPS in every way he can. His crony there, DeJoy,
has cut out overtime for USPS employees. The goal is to disqualify mail-in ballots and mail-in ballot applications for arriving after required deadlines. On the legal front, the Trump campaign is suing in Pennsylvania to disallow mail-in ballot drop boxes. Other swing states will be targets of suits.
I think the mail-in ballots “fraud” charges by Trump after the Nov. 3rd election are probably going to center on Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina.
If the election is completed upended by Trump’s chaos on fraudulent legal challenges, we could end up on January 20th with President Nancy Pelosi or, more bizarrely, with President Chuck Grassley, the current president pro tempore of the Senate.
Careful, you’ll be accused of promoting conspiracy theories.
Although it’s clear these are all further examples of Republican voter suppression tactics.
E.J. Montini, a columnist at the Arizona Republic, yesterday told Arizona Republicans to either counter Trump’s lies on mail-in voting or resign.
REALLY??
I meant to say Arizona Republican elected officials…
White House steps back from Trump suggestion about delaying the election
The White House has no plans to try to delay the Nov. 3 election, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, even as he defended a tweet from President Trump that raised the possibility.
“We’re going to hold an election on November 3rd, and the president is going to win,” Meadows said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
Trump’s tweet on Thursday, which set off alarm bells throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to untenable delays in counting votes, Meadows insisted…
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House Democrats need to drag this hack before a Congressional Committee for an all day hearing .
Hope this happens soon.
The White House has denounced Hong Kong’s decision to delay elections one year.
These people have no sense of irony!
None whatsoever.
Well, Hong Kong (with Kowloon) is so vast and spread-out, with so many different local election authorities, that it must take time to prepare, transmit and collect all those ballots.