Biden: ‘No need’ to postpone general election, even though it can’t be unilaterally

Published March 22, 2020 11:51pm ET



Joe Biden shrugged off conjecture November’s general election would have to be delayed due to the coronavirus crisis, even though the theories aren’t rooted in law or fact.

“We voted [in] the middle of a Civil War. We voted in the middle of World War I and II. And so the idea of postponing the electoral process is just, seems to me, out of the question,” the two-term vice president told donors during his second virtual fundraiser in the COVID-19 virus campaign era.

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