Donald Trump is thinking about delaying the election!

Well at last he has said what he denied as nonsense only a few months ago. Donald Trump has tweeted the idea that perhaps the November 3 presidential election might have to be postponed. Not because of the pandemic as such but because of the need under the circumstances for people to vote by mail instead of queuing up at the ballot box. Trump has got it in his head that if people vote by mail it will open up a huge potential for fraud which would benefit the Democratic nominee. And also that mail voting benefits the Democrats anyway for some reason he doesn't explain. All the experts say there is no evidence that voting by mail is vulnerable to fraud. Constitutionally Trump is way off beam. He doesn't have the constitutional right to delay the election, the timing of which is set in stone by Congress edict going back to 1845. So it HAS to be November 3, because November 3 is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of the month of November. That's what the law stipulates. When Joe Biden first raised the idea that Trump might try to delay the election, he was pounced on by the president and by the White House who said there was no question of any delay and accused the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee of being a silly old fool basically. Now with fewer than 100 days to go, Trump's tweet floating the idea of a delay has electrified the presidential election campaign. Could he do it, despite the wording of the Congress edict? Could he say, this is a unique time in the history of the United States - the pandemic not the reelection of Trump - and that justified delaying the voting day until everything is settled and people can go and vote the way they have always done. He could do just that but will Congress give way? Could the Republicans in the Senate come up with some clever legal argument which will keep Trump in office until next year to see how the pandemic shapes up over the next few months. Biden will of course say, "I told you so". I don't think Trump can do it and I don't think the Republican-controled Senate has the power to do it either. But over the next 90 odd days this idea floated by Trump is going to get bigger and bigger. It just might happen.