Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that the 2020 presidential election should be delayed. This wasn’t received well by either political party.
One person who blasted the president over his idea was National Review writer Dan McLaughlin, who wrote that Trump’s decision to float delaying the election is not only a terrible precedent, but is also impossible for him to achieve.
“The election won’t be delayed,” he writes. “Trump has no legal power to do this, and House Democrats have no reason to accommodate him by changing the law.”
McLaughlin also believes that this makes Trump look “weak” for already finding ways to not accept election results.
“It is also a glaring statement of no-confidence in his own ability to compete in the election,” he writes.
McLaughlin also claims that Republicans should be angry at Trump’s call to delay the election.
“If I were, say, a Republican senator running for re-election right now, I’d be furious,” he writes. One lesson of past campaigns is that the head of the ticket is supposed to play all the way to the whistle to keep the bottom from dropping out of down-ticket turnout… If Trump is already focused in July on making excuses for losing, that is a very bad omen for Republicans in November.”
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