Analysis | Why Trump's election delay tweet matters
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.
His standing with the public flagging amid myriad crises, Trump floated on Twitter the prospect of delaying the Nov. 3 election — a suggestion more in line with autocrats who try to quash the public’s ability to vote than with the head of the world’s leading democracy. “Most presidents have leaned very hard in the other direction, even when times were tougher than now,” said William Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
Story continuesIn 2020, Trump has aggressively turned his attention to the electoral process that will determine his political fate. He’s repeatedly raised unfounded accusations of fraud, particularly related to the uptick in mail-in voting that is expected because of safety fears during the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s also refused to say whether he would accept the outcome of the election, saying it's too soon to give an ironclad guarantee.
With the election less than 100 days away, both national and battleground state polls show Trump trailing Biden and losing support from Americans on his handling of the pandemic and other major issues. The best-case scenario, according to some observers, is that Trump’s broadsides against the electoral process are simply a way for him to explain away a possible loss.
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