Trump suggests delaying election until people can vote ‘securely’

By Katherine Doyle

Published July 30, 2020 1:00pm ET

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President Trump suggested that the election could be delayed, questioning whether Americans can “properly, securely and safely vote” this year.

“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” Trump wrote in a Thursday tweet. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”

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