# Trump calls for delaying the election
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829 "2020-07-30T13:14:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/141 "2020-08-01T08:50:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> > [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> > _[Re Obama’s eulogy on Lewis]_
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> > …I dare anyone to say it was not appropriate to bring up the election at this event…
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> Ha! Stephen Miller took my dare!
> [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510006-stephen-miller-criticizes-obama-for-shockingly-political-remarks-at](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510006-stephen-miller-criticizes-obama-for-shockingly-political-remarks-at)
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> 👍🏼
I’m now more certain than ever that at some point Stephen Miller changed his name from Joseph Goebbels III, probably to make it sound more benign and American. He even has a distinct resemblance to his grandfather, especially that hateful evil leer.
Meanwhile, even McTurtle is getting uncomfortable with this shit:
[https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/senate-mcconnell-trump-firewall/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/senate-mcconnell-trump-firewall/index.html)
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### Author:  [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/142 "2020-08-01T13:26:56Z")
I got a chuckle out of this - the Fox News clowns, back in April, implying that Biden was delusional for suggesting that Trump might actually (gasp!) call for delaying the election.
[Fox hosts previously dismissed the idea that Trump would delay the election](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIts_HmSH7U)
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/143 "2020-08-01T15:29:15Z")
I’m impressed at the twisting gymnastics that anyone working at Fox News needs to possess.
In the space of a few days, they have to twist from
“masks bad, because Dear Leader Trump says so”
to
“Masks good because Dear Leader Trump says so”
Now they have to twist from
“Suggestions that Dear Leader Trump wants to delay the election are crazy and delusional”
to:
“Dear Leader Trump’s suggestion to delay the election is wise and good”
twist twist twist, turn turn turn.
They must write their talking points on an easy-to-erase whiteboard.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/144 "2020-08-01T15:43:34Z")
There’s no gymnastics involved. They just say what they’re told to without conscience, easy.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/145 "2020-08-01T16:24:41Z")
> [@asahi](#):
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> But wait, there’s more. Call now, and we’ll give you post office closures and service cuts just as mail-in ballots are becoming a thing at no extra charge.
How many people who vote by mail do you think are going to go to the post office to drop off their ballots? Yes, I am aware that you don’t have to stand in line or talk to a clerk just to drop off a mail-in ballot (unless you arrive at a time when so many people are also there to drop off their ballots that there is a line, assuming the parking lot isn’t already full).
I have a feeling there are going to be a number of people driving through the streets of “Democratic neighborhoods” rifling through their mailboxes, and possibly pouring water into the drop boxes (to make the ballots illegible), in the days before the election. Plan B is to organize a “ballot pickup” where somebody arranges to pick up a group of ballots and deliver them to the post office - only for ballots in particiular areas to “mysteriously” disappear.
"And as the votes come in, it looks like Trump will win {insert swing state here} narrowly. The big surprise is the apparently low turnout in some of the normally ‘blue areas.’ " Remember, you don’t get a receipt of any sort that your ballot arrived when you vote by mail.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/146 "2020-08-01T17:03:20Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> Remember, you don’t get a receipt of any sort that your ballot arrived when you vote by mail.
Perhaps it’s a nitpick, but for those of us who (luckily) already live in an all-by-mail state, this is not a worry.
> **[Was your ballot accepted or rejected?](https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/how-to-check-if-your-colorado-mail-in-ballot-was-accepted-or-rejected)**
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> More than two million Coloradans have already voted, but was your ballot accepted or rejected?
Just a fast link from the 2016 election, but explains it. So if a common sense mail in process with appropriate conditions were applied, it would be less of an issue. In state that already have a ‘reason required’ mail in, yeah, they don’t seem like they want to make it a possibility.
For what it’s worth though, since I live in a super conservative area of the state, I take my mail in ballot to one of the drive by drop boxes. Not that I _think_ a neighbor will be checking mailboxes for ballots, but because it’s just too damn important and I’ve become a bit paranoid.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/147 "2020-08-01T17:24:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> I’m impressed at the twisting gymnastics that anyone working at Fox News needs to possess.
It’s like the saying goes; journalism is the second draft of history.
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/148 "2020-08-01T17:32:06Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> Remember, you don’t get a receipt of any sort that your ballot arrived when you vote by mail.
No, you don’t get a receipt. But in my all-mail-voting state, you can check to ensure your ballot was received by the Board of Elections online. I drop my ballot in a drop box (my choice, I have the same paranoia as @ParallelLines), then check the next day to make sure it was received.
I was watching the Secretary of State in Colorado speak last night. They use bar codes, same as packages. Voters can track their mail-in ballots all the way back to their Board of Elections. Pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/149 "2020-08-01T17:37:10Z")
When I lived in Oregon, there was vote by mail, and it was really well-managed. Each state should do it this way, really.
Unfortunately, Trump is clearly trying to disrupt the postal service, and he might succeed. Hopefully, it’ll motivate more people to turn against him and the party. Otherwise, we can look forward to many more years of tearing down institutions that have served us well.
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### Author:  [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/150 "2020-08-01T20:13:21Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> “Dear Leader Trump’s suggestion to delay the election is wise and good”
I try to pay attention to what Fox is reporting and I haven’t seen that (mobile site only). The worst that I’ve seen was that Trump’s suggestion was poorly timed (or something like that; it was trying to pass it off as a mild gaff). I’d say they’ve largely ignored it, although I think judge Nap called it unconstitutional.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/151 "2020-08-01T20:54:29Z")
“Unconstitutional” is a feature, not a bug as far as Trump supporters are concerned.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/152 "2020-08-06T19:56:47Z")
Fox is that bad? You’ve watched it? I watch CNN and MSNBC also
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### Author:  [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-delaying-the-election/916829/153 "2020-08-06T23:22:57Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> I have a feeling there are going to be a number of people driving through the streets of “Democratic neighborhoods” rifling through their mailboxes, and possibly pouring water into the drop boxes (to make the ballots illegible), in the days before the election. Plan B is to organize a “ballot pickup” where somebody arranges to pick up a group of ballots and deliver them to the post office - only for ballots in particiular areas to “mysteriously” disappear.
They can put midgets in mailboxes with flashlights, a week’s worth of MREs and six $100 bills.
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