Looks like Biden is crushing Trump in the upcoming election still. And doing really well in some battleground states.
He seems to think that Trump will try to flip the board and not want to play in the fall.
Biden predicts Trump will try to postpone the November election
Former vice president Joe Biden predicted Thursday night that President Trump will seek to postpone the November election, telling supporters participating in an online fundraiser, “That’s the only way he thinks he can possibly win.”
“Mark my words, I think he is going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” said Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Biden cited Trump’s
threat to veto the $2 trillion stimulus bill in response to the coronavirus outbreak if it contained money to bail out the U.S. Postal Service.
“Imagine threatening not to fund the post office,” Biden said. “Now what in God’s name is that about? Other than trying to let the word out that he’s going to do all he can to make it very hard for people to vote. That’s the only way he thinks he can possibly win.”
A Trump campaign spokesman categorically dismissed Biden’s accusations.
“Those are the incoherent, conspiracy theory ramblings of a lost candidate who is out of touch with reality,” said spokesman Tim Murtaugh. “President Trump has been clear that the election will happen on November 3rd.”
Biden’s comments come as Democrats are pushing to dramatically expand voting by mail in response to the pandemic.
Biden voiced his full-throated support for that effort, saying: “We have to make it easier for everybody to be able to vote, particularly if we are still basically in the kind of lockdown circumstances we are in now.”
The November election date is set by federal law and would require an act of Congress to change. Any effort by Trump to do so unilaterally would undoubtedly prompt legal action.
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By John Wagner