Biden red herring: Candidate stokes scare over Trump postponing elections

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Biden red herring: Candidate stokes scare over Trump postponing elections
by Emily Larsen
 | April 25, 2020 12:01 AM



Joe Biden’s warning that President Trump will try to postpone the Democratic presidential election is constitutionally impossible and politically improbable.

But while it is not legal or likely, bringing up the possibility of Trump delaying elections serves Democrats by being an outrage-to-action tool.

“I believe that Joe Biden's remarks are to rally the base, no different than when President Trump stands up there and says, ‘Free Minnesota, free Michigan,’” said Bob Stein, a professor of political science at Rice University who studies voting behavior.

Efforts such as voter ID laws or banning buses from taking congregants to the polls after church have had the effect of boosting voter turnout, Stein said. Trying to prevent people from voting will “get a progressive voter aggravated and show up.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-red-herring-candidate-stokes-scare-over-trump-postponing-elections

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Are the paid Wolf-Criers paid at least $15 per hour?

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Mitchell & Pelosi Push Conspiracy Theory of Trump Delaying Election
By Kyle Drennen | April 24, 2020 1:58 PM EDT

During a softball interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell asked about a conspiracy theory being pushed by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that President Trump would try to use the coronavirus pandemic to “kick back the election” in November. Rather dismiss the unfounded claim, the supposed journalist wondered how Pelosi could prevent the imagined scheme.

“I do want to ask you that Joe Biden raised the issue, he thinks the President is trying to kick back the election and somehow not have the – create a rationale not to hold the election on November 3rd, as scheduled, if there’s a resurgence of the virus in the fall,” Mitchell touted. She then made it clear that she shared Biden’s fear: “It’s a constitutional mandate. Are you sure that you can – and Democrats – can make sure that we have the election as scheduled?”

Pelosi didn’t waste any time denouncing the fictional scenario and urging her colleagues to “stand up for our country, our Constitution, and our democracy” against the nefarious plan – which Biden invented out of thin air:

https://www.newsbusters.org/print/256058