The White House Ensures There Is No Delay In The US Presidential Election After Trump Discusses It

JAKARTA - President of the United States (US) Donald Trump had a discourse on postponing the election through his Twitter account. But recently it was denied by the Chief of Staff of the White House, Mark Meadows. He said there were no plans to postpone it.

Late last month, Trump threw up a discourse on the postponement of the US election. He questioned whether implementing a mail-in voting system during the COVID-19 pandemic would make presidential elections the most inaccurate and fraudulent.

"This will be very embarrassing for the US. Should elections be postponed until people can vote properly and safely?" Trump said via his Twitter account.

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

However, the White House quickly denied this discourse in an official statement delivered by Meadows. "We will have elections on November 3, and the president (Trump) will win," he was quoted as saying by The Washington Post.

The White House argued that Trump's upload was limited to questioning the effectiveness of the electoral system amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "There's a question mark," Meadows said.

Meadows also argues that voting by mailed ballots could result in delays in tallying election results by up to a month or more. "What we will do is if we try to transform it. And start sending ballots statewide, all 50 states, what we're going to see is a delay because they're not ready to handle it, "he said.

Meadows' remarks came after Republican lawmakers rejected Trump's suggestion to postpone the election. Including some of his most powerful allies such as Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Lindsey O. Graham.

They claim that the president does not have the power to change election dates, which are set by Congress.

"We're going to find a way to keep doing it (the US presidential election) on November 3," McConnell said last week.

As is known, concrete examples of voting fraud by letter that Trump alluded to are actually very rare. Most Republican electoral authorities try to expand voting by sending ballots to voters. They still do the idea even though Trump attacks in this way.

State officials do warn that a surge in elections via ballot delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic could result in delays in tallying votes. Officials have sought funds to make the counting process run smoothly.

Congress has allocated US $ 400 million for the election. But Democrats' efforts to provide an additional $ 3.6 billion have been thwarted by Republicans.

Meanwhile, a Biden campaign official called Trump's post on Twitter an obvious tactic to divert attention from the dire state of the US economy. "We will continue to watch," said the campaign official.