While in the United States, the coronavirus epidemic has already killed 49,759 people in the United States and after one of the worst human reports recorded on 24 hours, Joe Biden launches a serious accusation against Donald Trump. The Democratic Party candidate assures that the American president will do his best to postpone the presidential election, which should take place on November 3. A tactic to preserve his chances of winning, according to him.
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A possibility never before mentioned by Donald Trump
"Remember what I tell you, I think he will try to postpone the elections in one way or another, find reasons why they cannot take place," said Joe Biden Thursday during an online fundraiser.
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The American president does not have the power to change the polling date and, moreover, has never mentioned this possibility, either on Twitter or in the very long press briefings held every day.
Opposition to postal voting
If Joe Biden asserts such a hypothesis, it is that for a month Donald Trump has regularly opposed postal voting. A possible system in the United States and considered as a good alternative to counter the spread of Covid-19 by avoiding the long queues outside the polling stations.
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In the eyes of the Democratic Party candidate, these attacks on the postal vote would therefore be the trick used by the American president to move the date of the election. According to congressional records, no US presidential election has ever been postponed to deal with an emergency, neither in times of war, nor in times of pandemics.