Erwin Chemerinsky on Election Postponing:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-30/trump-postpone-election-tweet

By Erwin Chemerinsky
July 30, 2020
10:27 AM

Once again, President Trump has shown his ignorance of the Constitution and federal law in raising the question on Twitter of whether the November presidential election should be delayed. To be clear, President Trump has absolutely no legal authority to do this. The date for the election is set by federal statute and can be changed only by Congress.

But that didn’t stop Trump from tweeting on Thursday morning, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”

The president, who is significantly down in the polls, clearly does not want the election to be held in November, and it’s hard not to interpret his tweet as a blatant, if desperate, attempt to stay in office past the end of his term. Thankfully, the Constitution gives him no way to do this.

The Constitution explicitly gives to Congress the power to set the date for national elections. For the first half-century of American history, each state set its own election date and balloting for the presidential election stretched out over six months.

All of it at the link.

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1. Trump got surprisingly little traction on this

it seems like even his stalwarts weren't willing to carry water on this one. Crickets. There's been some speculation that all buckets (and bilge pumps) are being currently put to use at other locations.
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3. yes, donnie finally seems to have done something unforgiveable -- appear likely to lose the election

republicans have shown themselves willing to let him get away with anything else.

but trail too much in the polls, well, that's a crime they can't abide by.

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2. Dolt45 would know about fraudulent voting by absentee ballot

That video from 2004 - that showed that he didn't know which precinct he should vote in and ended with him casting a provisional ballot - does not tell us if that provisional ballot was ever validated or if he was even registered to vote at all.

Then this year, he voted by mail in Florida, using an address which by a legal agreement could not be his legal address. His vote in the Republican Primary in Florida was thus fraudulent and illegal.

Spoiler - his vote was counted in 2004 - but he was not a consistent voter and did not stick with one particular party:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/07/donald-trumps-got-a-particularly-strange-voting-history/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thanks for the data! He has a checkered voting history for sure.

PLUS he's projecting when he's talking about fraudulent voting!

[EleanorR]

5. trumps tweet also gave Hong Kong cover to postpone their elections

Sure the WH came out with a statement criticizing the move, but because of trump's statement 24 hours before we looked weak and idiotic.