{"id":40572,"date":"2020-07-30T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40572"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:44:52","slug":"the-trump-election-evasion-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/the-trump-election-evasion-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump* Election Evasion Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

When criminal Fuhrer Trump* looks ahead to November, his prospects could not look more bleak.  His Republican plague is sweeping the nation and even traditional Republicans are not buying his lies that it’s Obama’s, the Democrat’s, China’s, anyone but his fault.  The economy, his so-called “pride and joy”, is worse than it was in the great depression.  The polls are so bad that even Putin [R-RU] can’t steal this one for him.  But he and the Republican Party still seek to establish a permanent, totalitarian, plutocratic 5th Reich, in which elections exist for show only.<\/font><\/p>\n

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When Joe Biden mentioned the possibility that Donald Trump would try to \u201ckick back the election somehow\u201d back in April, Washington Post<\/a> pundit Henry Olsen was aghast. He called Biden\u2019s statement an \u201cunfounded accusation\u201d and said this was \u201cnot only clearly over the line but also unmasks how low the supposedly moderate Biden will go to win.\u201d  <\/p>\n

Olsen better be prepping that apology, because on Thursday morning Trump extended his rant about mail-in voting to the place where it was obviously going all along. After repeating his previous lies about mail-in voting being \u201cinaccurate and fraudulent,\u201d Trump delivered the punch line. Rather than allow mail-in voting, why not, Trump suggested: \u201cDelay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote.\u201d That safety would, presumably, be entirely up to Trump. Meaning that Election Day would be the second Tuesday after never<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

As The Washington Post<\/a> points out, Trump cannot actually change the date of the federal elections. Though Trump may believe that Article II provides godlike powers, picking the date for federal elections is actually the role of Congress. And that date is already set. Congress doesn\u2019t have to vote to have the election on Nov. 3; it would have to vote to change it to any other date. <\/p>\n

Still, this isn\u2019t as comforting as it should be. Now that Trump has made an official salvo down the delay path, it\u2019s certain not to be the last. And it\u2019s easy to believe that Sen. Mitch McConnell and the other Senate Republicans who voted to give Trump a free pass on bribing foreign countries into lying about his opponent would happily go along with this scheme. After all, for McConnell, every day the election is delayed is another day in which a Supreme Court opening might occur.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Naturally, the Democratically-led House wouldn’t go along with this, but that\u2019s still no guarantee. Trump doesn\u2019t have to actually delay the election so much as delegitimize it. That\u2019s the purpose of all his rants against mail-in voting in the first place: To raise doubts about the outcome of the election and position Trump to deny the results, no matter how clear<\/strong>. It\u2019s quite easy to imagine Donald Trump pounding the podium in November, claiming that only those votes cast in a voting booth on that date really count. Or even that the whole date is \u201cnot legitimate.\u201d Because he says so. And it\u2019s extremely easy to imagine Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, and McConnell backing that play<\/strong>…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Trump Tweet Suggests Delaying Election Over Mail-In Voting Fraud Claims<\/a> <\/p>\n