White House steps back from Trump suggestion about delaying the election

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Source: Washington Post

The White House has no plans to try to delay the Nov. 3 election, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, even as he defended a tweet from President Trump that raised the possibility.

Trump’s tweet on Thursday, which set off alarm bells throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to untenable delays in counting votes, Meadows insisted.

That tweet warned without evidence that “2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history” and ended by asking “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”

“What we will do is if we try to transform this and start mailing in ballots all across the country, all 50 states, what we will see is a delay because they’re just not equipped to handle it,” he said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/02/white-house-steps-back-trump-suggestion-about-delaying-election/

[Talitha]

1. Of course the WH has to step back on it - Dumpy's nutz!

It's got to be embarrasing working for that fool.

[Grokenstein]

2. The smell of toast grows stronger in their nostrils.

Even thicker than the aroma of the bullshit Meadows shovels every time he tries to wave away Trump's psychotic blatherings.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. No they'll work on contesting the outcome with litigation in states they lose

by contesting mail-in ballots, counting of mail-in ballots, voter rolls, etc, etc, etc

[C Moon]

5. This wasn't a dumb mistake: the GOPutin machine knows they can't win by cheating this time,

so they will try to make this election appear fraudulent in their typical manner: repeating the same phrases over and over again. So that when the election happens, they can say "we told you so" (even though there is nothing there).