A variety of Republican Politicians have publicly declined President Donald Trump‘s idea to postpone the governmental election over unproven issues about mail-in voting scams.
On Thursday early morning, Trump tweeted that mail-in ballot would “be the most UNRELIABLE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.”
” It will be an excellent humiliation to the USA,” the president wrote. “Postpone the Election until people can effectively, firmly and securely vote???”
Hours after Trump’s tweet, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) assured a Kentucky news station that the government would make sure the election happens on Nov. 3.
” Never ever in the history of the country, through wars and depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll discover a method to do that again this November third,” McConnell informed WNKY-TV.
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After Home and Senate Republicans claimed that moving the election date would be a constitutional infraction, Trump insisted that he didn’t wish to delay the election however also recommended that a mail-in voting election would not count.
Here are what other Republicans in Congress have actually stated about Trump’s remarks Thursday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Grassley assured press reporters that the law was clear about the election date.
” All these things are quite well set and have been going on for years,” Grassley said. “So we are a country based on the guideline of law, so nobody is going to change anything until we change the law.”
When asked whether Trump’s suggestion on Twitter was suitable, Grassley stated: “It doesn’t matter what a private in this nation states; we still are a country based on the rule of law.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
McCarthy pointed out that the U.S. has actually never ever missed an election.
” Never ever in the history of federal elections have we e