Twitter users are dragging President Donald Trump all over the internet for suggesting the November presidential election should be postponed, claiming that increased postal voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” Trump tweeted. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
There is no evidence to support the idea that either absentee or mail-in ballots increases voter fraud. It also does not appear that there will be universal mail-in voting this fall, though some states require mail-in ballots.
Not surprisingly, Twitter users were quick to slam the Trump’s outlandish proposal.
Check the president’s tweet and some of the responses below:
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Hey @Twitter ,
We need a statement for this tweet.
The POTUS DOES NOT have the power to delay an election because of his gross failures.
— Andrew Goss 👊USAF👊 (@Goss30Goss) July 30, 2020
— Andrew Goss 👊USAF👊 (@Goss30Goss) July 30, 2020
What the actual fuck is wrong with you?
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 30, 2020
Knowing you’re gonna lose in a historic landslide is not evidence of voting fraud. It’s evidence you’re an ignorant, incompetent, pathological-lying, dangerous racist sociopath traitor who Americans are rejecting…
— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) July 30, 2020
Every generation is called to defend America from dangerous threats to our Republic. Generations before were called to defeat Nazism – today our generation is called to DEFEAT Trumpism. It's up to each of us to save America from this threat:
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 30, 2020
you can't cheat again in the election, don't even try it mate.
— Marius 🚀 (@m_m_m200m) July 30, 2020
He just wants to delay how soon he goes to jail…
— Chromosome packager. (@Average_Carnage) July 30, 2020
— Chris Toft (@ChristofToft) July 30, 2020
Can someone get his straighjacket please!!!!
— Andres Delgado (@andrewthin) July 30, 2020
There it is. Republicans pretty speak out or they own the destruction of democracy.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 30, 2020
Nope. Pack your bags.
— Adam Rothman (@arothmanhistory) July 30, 2020
