Trump moots delaying 2020 election over mail-in poll concerns ‘until people can properly, securely & safely vote’

30 Jul, 2020 13:04 / Updated 3 minutes ago

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Mail-in voting threatens to make the November election the “most inaccurate & fraudulent” in US history, so the nation may be better off simply postponing it, President Donald Trump has suggested in a tweet.

Sharing his ongoing concerns over mail-in voting, Trump raised the possibility of delaying the election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote.”

The US President appears to be considering an idea that just a few months he angrily dismissed. In April, his presumed Democratic rival Joe Biden claimed the incumbent would “try to kick back the election somehow.”

"That's the only way he thinks he can possibly win," Biden said.

Trump responded with an angry rebuke, calling it "made-up propaganda,” and adding: "I never even thought of changing the date of the election. Why would I do that? November 3. It's a good number. No, I look forward to that election."

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