Don't worry, everyone:
We’ve come to the conclusion that even if there is some mass document in the Oval Office with every last detail of the President’s job description, Trump almost certainly has not read it. On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted a statement that had Twitter-goers reeling. Please, read the following with your very best impersonation of Trump: “With Universal Mail-In Voting , 2020 will be the most FRAUDULENT Election in history,” he wrote. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA.
Under the 20th Amendment, which describes presidential terms and successions as well as congressional assembly, the Constitution states that both the President and Vice president must end their terms of office at 12 p.m. on the 20th of January following a general election year. This is important to remember, as even if every possible scenario took place for which voting could be delayed, Trump would still have to be dragged out of the White House on January 20 no matter what .
The Constitution states that members of the Electoral College must give their votes for President and Vice President “on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.” No explanation for why that rule is phrased that way, but this year, the first Monday after the second Wednesday is December 14. As the NCC states, “Another part of the election law requires the states to send in their electoral votes to Congress by December 23rd, 2020.
So, 500 words, a few semi-confusing constitutional amendments, two coffee breaks on my end, and one Hamilton reference later, we have now officially learned that no, Donald Trump has absolutely no authority over delaying the 2020 election, and the possibility of Congress deciding to do so is extremely unlikely.
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