No, Election Day Isn't Moving

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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President Trump tweets about delaying the election, something he doesn't have the power to do. CNN Political Director David Chalian breaks down how that controversial distraction is overshadowing the President's efforts to delegitimize voting by mail and the symbolism of these attacks on the day that voting rights champion John Lewis is laid to rest. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump, the President of the United States,
0:03.6	sowing doubt about the very legitimacy of this election.
0:09.2	Today, we'll discuss that, plus the context of the day it takes place.
0:13.8	The day civil rights icon John Lewis is laid to rest with the help of Donald Trump's
0:19.8	predecessors.
0:26.4	Hi, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily D.C.
0:31.7	Today's shiny object from President Trump came in the form of a tweet this morning.
0:37.7	Quote, with universal mail-in voting, not absentee voting, which is good. 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history.
0:43.2	It will be a great embarrassment to the USA.
0:47.1	Delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote with three question marks.
0:55.3	Donald Trump, the president of the United States, is suggesting that the election set to
1:02.2	take place just three months from now will be an illegitimate one because of the pandemic
1:08.9	that he has mismanaged, people will need to vote by mail, and he doesn't
1:13.4	want people to vote by mail. We're going to get into why in just a moment. I want to just
1:17.3	stress that this tweet came as news was coming out about the economic pain this country is going
1:24.1	through, the greatest contraction in history of the GDP.
1:30.1	And Donald Trump's floating the notion that he is going to perhaps delay the election or
1:37.1	that the election should be delayed because people may not be able to vote safely.
1:42.6	I mean, first of all,
1:45.5	Donald Trump has nothing to do with setting the date of the election.
1:46.9	That is in the purview of Congress.
1:48.5	So put the distraction
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