Here are the results of our “Trump* Wants to Postpone Elections” Poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond here are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect the thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

And here are your comments.

Showing comments 1–11 of 11.

 

Posted by dave c  August 30, 2020 at 10:24 am. From: (US)  

 

I think its a “trial balloon” to see how far he can go….since I’ve seen people say “if Trump loses we’ll be in the streets” he has lots of cover to act however dictatorial and or authoritarian he wishes

 

Posted by Lynn Squance  August 28, 2020 at 4:46 pm. From: (CA)    

 

I don’t think this an either/or question but rather an “and” question. Trump is supremely narcissistic as we all know and the evidence is very plain to see — “I alone can fix it.” and more recently, “I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump has always touted his economic policies and the economy being the best ever in all US history. Along comes COVID and “his” economy, upon which he had pinned his re-election, is in the dumpster. So of course he wants to distract from that and what better way than floating the idea of delaying the election on the pretense of a fraud canard. He had to know that delaying the election was not going to happen before he floated the idea — there are too many lawyers around him! But the question certainly did distract a bit but it also spawned its own controversy re the USPS and mail-in-ballots, with which he is still trying do an end run around the laws. But likewise, the Narcissist-in-Chief does not to lose, not o mention that if he does lose, he will surely face criminal charges for a multitude of sins of commission and omission. Staying in power is the only way he can avoid that scenario. Let’s not forget that he said that China’s President Ji had the right idea when he made himself president for life. His enablers will say he was only joking but that would be his wet dream. Fasten your seatbelts because it is going to be a very, very, very bumpy ride for the next 5 months, assuming of course that he loses. Anybody who votes for him is, in my opinion, willfully blind, stupid and delusional.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName  August 20, 2020 at 3:34 pm. From: (US)    

 

As Kayleigh McEnema has indicated: Trump is lining up his ducks to claim that ANY result that does NOT reelect him will be rigged, fraudulent, invalid, etc. …

Hopefully not, but November might turn out to be bloodier that we had ever imagined.

GOTV – the margin of our Biden/Harris victory has to be unassailable!

 

Posted by Gene Jacobson  August 16, 2020 at 7:23 am. From: (US)    

 

Testing the waters. Distracting people from the chaos around us, of his making. It’s his way. He does it all the time. “many people say” or “a lot of people think”, it’s all just him making things up and trying to gaslight his base and America into thinking there’s something there when there never was to begin with. It’s sort of his signature.

 

Posted by JL  August 7, 2020 at 1:35 am. From: (US)    

 

I didn’t vote since I consider his reason to deflect a combination with Covid, emerging evidence of more criminal and impeachable offenses where fascist approach of staying in office to avoid/postpone trials has been a plan since before he took the oath of office with evidence of criminal behavior already emerging then…his failures to do his job have undermined conventional election win chances and the brainwashing tactics did not prove to be long lasting on enough voters so now we see him testing out other illegitimate strategies.

 

Posted by Rixar13  August 5, 2020 at 3:16 pm. From: (US)    

 

Distraction

 

Posted by Lona Goudswaard  August 2, 2020 at 4:38 pm. From: (AU)    

 

Returning to the previous page, I could see that I had indeed chosen number 3 Posted by Lona Goudswaard  August 2, 2020 at 4:35 pm. From: (AU)    

 

I thought I had pushed the number three button, but it hardly matters as I think that he has done it for both reasons.

 

Posted by Mitch D.  August 2, 2020 at 8:54 am. From: (US)   

 

The would-be man, would-be king for life, working on finding whatever way comes to hand not to relinquish the presidency. The good news is that it would take both houses of congress to agree to delay the election, and that is not about t happen. The bad news is that he might create a new crisis (war with Iran?) to try to bluster his way past the January 20th “bye now!” deadline. He can’t simply dismiss congress, as other autocrats have done with their parliaments, though he might try, with the help of Barr, to work around that. Bottom line: He is not going to go easily!

 

Posted by Pat B  August 2, 2020 at 8:40 am. From: (US)    

 

Postponing the elections? The results would be fraudulent? He’s drawing straws, deflecting the important issues, talking incoherently, and doing nothing for assistance with the pandemic with Americans losing their lives every day. Imho, by him trying to postpone the election, he’s admitting that he’s in a rock and a hard place right now. I think it will get worse for him, as time goes by.

 

Posted by Joanne D  August 2, 2020 at 8:06 am. From: (US)    

 

I don’t know for a fact that he is setting up a coup, but I do know for a fact that we had better assume that he is and plan to avert it. One of Murphy’s Laws reads something like “The distraction that you are dismissing is the real attack.” Not word-for-word accurate, but all too accurate in meaning.

 

I voted with the majority.  I should have included a “Both” response, as I now think that one is the best answer.  The trial balloon hypothesis also has merit.

The new poll is up, and it’s quantitative rather than either/or.  Please vote and PLEASE vote Blue between now and 11/3.

RESIST!!