Hi, this is Jason in Cape Canaveral, Florida where I'm about to watch NASA's

Perseverance rover blast off on top of an Atlas V rocket on its way to Mars.

This podcast was recorded at 206 PM on Thursday, July 30th.

And we're on our way to Mars. Go Atlas V, go Perseverance.

Alright, here's the show.

I have always wanted to see a space rocket launch.

I get nervous with them, but I guess this was unmanned, so you don't need to be nervous about that.

So, yeah. Nothing to worry about. Yeah, yeah, so I could see that.

Hey there, it's the MPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

I'm Aisha Roscoe, I cover the White House.

And I'm a smah collar that I'm covering the presidential campaign.

So, election day in this country is determined by a law that's 175 years old,

and it says basically that elections must be held on the first Tuesday,

after the first Monday in November. But this morning, the president suggested delaying the election.

Something he alone does not have the power to do.

So, Aisha, what exactly did President Trump say?

He had this tweet this morning that is full of statements that are inaccurate.

Basically, the thrust of it was he said that if you do universal mail-in voting

in 2020 that you will have an inaccurate and fraudulent election,

the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history.

And then he had this question at the end.

Delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote the re-question marks.

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