Trump Gets Schooled After He Suggests Delaying the Election in Unhinged Tweet Railing Against Mail-In Voting

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???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020

OMG: Now Trump is floating the idea of DELAYING THE ELECTION, which only an Act of Congress can do. So he's saying he'll claim the results of the undelayed election we're bound to have on November 3 are FRAUDULENT regardless of the electoral votes Congress certifies on January 6! https://t.co/c8OLOx83Lo
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 30, 2020

POTUS's 'delay' talk is so gratuitously self-destructive. The date for counting electoral votes is fixed by congressional statute. Only Congress could change it. All the 'delay' tweet does is fuel the paranoia I addressed last week ... https://t.co/PdDV2c3lVn
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) July 30, 2020

To change a statute, both houses of Congress must pass, and the President must sign, new statutory text. That's not happening. Election date will be November 3. Also, under the Constitution (20th Amdt), terms of President and Vice President end at noon on January 20, 2021.
— Greg Corcoran (@GSCorcoran) July 30, 2020

Fact check:
*Only Congress can change the date of the election.
*Even then, the Constitution requires that states send electoral votes to Congress by Dec. 23.
*And Trump must end term in office, the Constitution says, on Jan. 20.https://t.co/BfAD5Gmx9n pic.twitter.com/MCl2VaMjDz
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 30, 2020

BREAKING: because only Congress can change the election and they won't, Trump appears to be endorsing President Nancy Pelosi 👀 https://t.co/RXfI6c16RR
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) July 30, 2020

The US Constitution states that his term is up in January. Delaying an election doesn't change that. Speaker of the House is next in line. President Pelosi anyone? https://t.co/4u2lb6QouV
— Barb Utesch (@BarbUtesch) July 30, 2020

Delay the election? Unless Trump takes over the government by military force and suspends the Constitution, it will be President Pelosi on January 20th by default. Because without an election, Trump has absolutely no authority to remain in power unless he does a military coup.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 30, 2020

No election?
Then we get President Pelosi January 20 at noon per the Constitution.

Your term expires either way.
Hope the door hits you......
— Grateful Chef (@ChefJohnnyB2) July 30, 2020

Trump's election delay threat is a purposefully-timed distraction to divert attention from the 32.9% reduction in Q2 GDP, the 1.43 million new unemployment claims and the 150,000 Americans who have died from coronavirus under his watch.

Don't let him get you off your message.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 30, 2020

▪️The economy fell by 33%, the largest drop in US HISTORY.

▪️There were 1,430,000 new unemployment claims.

▪️150,000 Americans have died of covid-19.

All bc of Trump's devastating incompetence.

HE DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO MOVE THE ELECTION

He's saying it as a distraction.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) July 30, 2020

We've had presidential elections during:

The Civil War

The Great Depression

World War I and II

So, we can have a presidential election this year. Because only Congress can change the date

What Trump is suggesting is dangerous, but it's also an intentional distraction
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 30, 2020