Delay?

Not a surprise from Dear Leader:

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???

Fortunately, he doesn't have the power to change the election or his term in office. As Josh Douglas notes "[even] martial law does not suspend the Constitution". And David Rothkopf expresses concern:

This is [Fuckface's] most dangerous Tweet ever. And I know that is saying something. It is not within his power to change the date of the election. But that he wants to try should set off alarms everywhere. He is publicly contemplating a dangerous, authoritarian power grab.

Even Fox News knows that "a person who is in a strong position would never, never make a suggestion like that". So weak.

Self described supporter Steven Calabresi writes:

I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election. Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that [Manbaby] is a fascist. But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.

Update (August 1):  Cody Fenwick points out the troublesome tweet following the suggestion of a delay:

Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!

Dear Leader knows he can benefit from as much chaos as possible.

It’s not clear the president has thought all this through and gamed out a complete strategy. He’s not much of a planner. But he clearly knows the polls are not looking good for him, and it’s undeniable that — as he did in 2016 — he’s laying the groundwork for challenging the legitimacy of the election. The terrifying thing is that it could work.

Update (August 5):  Martin Longman ponders whether von Clownstick is a would-be dictator, a gangster or mainly careless. None of the choices bodes well.

[Dear Leader] doesn’t know what is and isn’t constitutional, or who has the power to delay an election and who doesn’t. But simply through his own carelessness, he will do great damage to the integrity of our electoral process. He will undermine faith in the result and prevent the country from uniting, however briefly, around his replacement. He could even inspire violence, especially if it takes a week or more to declare a winner, or he gets it in his head that no one can force him to leave office.

Our republic depends on the consent of the governed, and a president who works overtime to prevent that consent is tearing at the fabric of our constitutional system. We’ll be lucky if all [Fuckface] leaves us with is a mess to be cleaned up.