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Thursday, July 30, 2020
In April, Trump panned as ‘conspiracy theory’ the notion he’d try to delay vote
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump has for the first time floated a “delay” to the November 3 presidential election, making unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud, but he can’t do that — and he had previous issued a strongly worded denunciation of his Democratic rival Joe Biden for saying Trump would try to push off the vote.
The dates of US presidential elections — the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every fourth year — are enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change. The Constitution makes no provisions for a delay to the January 20, 2021 presidential inauguration.
On April 24, Biden said: “Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held.”
The Trump campaign at the time commented to ABC: “Those are the incoherent, conspiracy theory ramblings of a lost candidate who is out of touch with reality.“
Trump campaign responds in a statement to @ABC News
“Those are the incoherent, conspiracy theory ramblings of a lost candidate who is out of touch with reality.“—@TimMurtaugh https://t.co/mDGbA9BIyw pic.twitter.com/1L1UzQoAqs
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) April 24, 2020
— with AP
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