The conventional media wisdom is that President Trump was trying to distract from some awful economic news.
Why else, the insta-pundits asked, would he …
The conventional media wisdom is that President Trump was trying to distract from some awful economic news. Why else, the insta-pundits asked, would he float an idea that he has absolutely no way of making happen? Delay the election–seriously?? It’s a wackadoodle notion, to be sure. And a president who was confident about winning a second term has no need to muse about pushing the date beyond Nov.3. Trump used the tweet to push his familiar complaint about mail ballots: “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good),2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Let’s assume it was just a coincidence that the tweet was posted 15 minutes after the announcement that the country’s gross domestic product plunged a staggering 33 percent in the second quarter.
