WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump thursday gave the lok to back down on the assumption of delaying the 2020 election, even as he continued to raise doubts about efforts to expand mail voting on the coronavirus of some states.
“Do I see a date change? No,” Trump said at the White House hours after discussing the assumption of a delay in a tweet. “But I don’t see a twisted election.”
Trump mocked bipartisan on Thursday to ask whether the preference for the presidential election should be delayed in considerations of voting during the pandemic, and his long reputation and unprofited statement that mailing ballots would lead to voter fraud.
Congressional Republicans have rejected the presumption of his great friend, and Democrats have accused the president of sowing doubts if the election does not happen.
Despite the return, Trump has not belittled him of pushing for a delay in voting, a concept that would require Congressional approval. Instead, he indicated that he advocated a delay while lamenting efforts to expand the vote by mail.
“What will take place in November is a disaster,” Trump said. “I much prefer a result, more than you … I don’t wait weeks and months.”
Democrats said Trump’s comments were not too convincing and that the maximum probably foreshadowed an ongoing effort to call the election into question. Trump is following so-called Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the battlefield states, analysts on both sides believe there’s plenty of time for the picture to change.
Political opponents said Trump is clearly threatening to dispute the election, either by a call for a delay or lawsuits over mail-in balloting.
“Ignoring its wave of fraudulent accusations about mail voting, the @POTUS foreshadows months of resistance and legal disputes if he doesn’t win,” Democrat strate strater David Axelrod tweeted.
Conservative commentator Erick Erick also has Trump’s strategy.
“Only the president undermines his re-election, either with a crazy mailing vote and senseless ramblings about the postponement of the election,” Erickson wrote. “An emerging component of its base is frustrated and thinks it’s just looking to lose.”
The president had “anchored” the electoral tweet on his Twitter account on Thursday, claiming that his 84.3 million fans would see it.
At the end of Thursday, he took off his pin.
Trump also called on lawmakers to approve a short-term extension of unemployment benefits, a concept that was followed through Republicans on Capitol Hill, but encountered strong resistance from Democrats. Both sides are suffering from negotiating some other circular stimulus measures for the economic damage caused by the virus.
“We prefer a transitional extension of extended unemployment benefits,” the president told reporters at the White House thursday. “This will create a critical bridge for Americans who have lost their jobs to the no-fault pandemic.”
Democrats prefer a broader deal than other stimulus packages.
Trump began his remarks Thursday by giving his sympathy to former Republican presidential candidate Herguy Cain, who died after a war with COVID-19.
“No one is safe,” Trump said.
“We can never get lost,” Trump said.
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After a several-week hiatus, Trump returned on July 21 to hang normal briefings on COVID-1 nine that had begun further in the pandemic. Unlike the afterlife, Trump has kept the last series of briefings relatively short and has not invited members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force to take the podium.
Trump answered questions for the last time in the information room on Tuesday. Since then, the country has surpassed 150,000 deaths by COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University. Several primary states, adding California and Florida, are setting new records for virus deaths.