President Trump's widely-denounced tweet suggesting the Nov. 3 election could be delayed amounted to a stunning attack on the underpinnings of American democracy, jpaceDC reports.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.Allies are left to shrug their shoulders and brush off his remarks. Some regularly claim to have not read or heard them.
It was a tweet that mattered, and couldn’t be ignored, even by many Republicans who have long given Trump a pass. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln pressed for an election in 1864 when the Civil War was raging and his prospects for victory looked bleak, though he ultimately benefited in part by making it easier for soldiers in the field to vote. An election was also held on time in 1944, with incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt claiming victory in the midst of World War II.
The president appeared to validate those fears this week. He tweeted that “Universal Mail-In Voting” — something that has not been proposed — would lead to “the most INACCURATE & FRADULENT Election in history.”Trump expanded his election attacks later in the day, saying he didn’t want to move forward with the vote unless the results are known the same day.
“Never in the history of the country, through wars and depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this November 3,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a stalwart Trump ally.
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