Trump suggests election delay, Australia's deadliest day, Polynesia's Mean Girls
Donald Trump has proposed via tweet that November’s presidential election be delayed until people can “properly, securely and safely vote”, despite electoral experts clarifying that the president has no unilateral power to change the date of any elections, which are enshrined in law. Facing declining poll numbers, bad economic news and the report that the US’s coronavirus death toll had passed 150,000, Trump claimed that mass mail-in voting could lead to “the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history”, but even loyalists such as Marco Rubio and Lindsay Graham quickly distanced themselves from the comments, with Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell saying the election date was “set in stone”.
