Here are the results of our “Trump* Wants to Postpone Elections” Poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond here are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect the thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

And here are your comments.

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Posted by dave c  August 30, 2020 at 10:24 am. From: (US)  

 

I think its a “trial balloon” to see how far he can go….since I’ve seen people say “if Trump loses we’ll be in the streets” he has lots of cover to act however dictatorial and or authoritarian he wishes

 

Posted by Lynn Squance  August 28, 2020 at 4:46 pm. From: (CA)    

 

I don’t think this an either/or question but rather an “and” question. Trump is supremely narcissistic as we all know and the evidence is very plain to see — “I alone can fix it.” and more recently, “I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump has always touted his economic policies and the economy being the best ever in all US history. Along comes COVID and “his” economy, upon which he had pinned his re-election, is in the dumpster. So of course he wants to distract from that and what better way than floating the idea of delaying the election on the pretense of a fraud canard. He had to know that delaying the election was not going to happen before he floated the idea — there are too many lawyers around him! But the question certainly did distract a bit but it also spawned its own controversy re the USPS and mail-in-ballots, with which he is still trying do an end run around the laws. But likewise, the Narcissist-in-Chief does not to lose, not o mention that if he does lose, he will surely face criminal charges for a multitude of sins of commission and omission. Staying in power is the only way he can avoid that scenario. Let’s not forget that he said that China’s President Ji had the right idea when he made himself president for life. His enablers will say he was only joking but that would be his wet dream. Fasten your seatbelts because it is going to be a very, very, very bumpy ride for the next 5 months, assuming of course that he loses. Anybody who votes for him is, in my opinion, willfully blind, stupid and delusional.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName  August 20, 2020 at 3:34 pm. From: (US)    

 

As Kayleigh McEnema has indicated: Trump is lining up his ducks to claim that ANY result that does NOT reelect him will be rigged, fraudulent, invalid, etc. …

Hopefully not, but November might turn out to be bloodier that we had ever imagined.

GOTV – the margin of our Biden/Harris victory has to be unassailable!

 

Posted by Gene Jacobson  August 16, 2020 at 7:23 am. From: (US)    

 

Testing the waters. Distracting people from the chaos around us, of his making. It’s his way. He does it all the time. “many people say” or “a lot of people think”, it’s all just him making things up and trying to gaslight his base and America into thinking there’s something there when there never was to begin with. It’s sort of his signature.

 

Posted by JL  August 7, 2020 at 1:35 am. From: (US)    

 

I didn’t vote since I consider his reason to deflect a combination with Covid, emerging evidence of more criminal and impeachable offenses where fascist approach of staying in office to avoid/postpone trials has been a plan since before he took the oath of office with evidence of criminal behavior already emerging then…his failures to do his job have undermined conventional election win chances and the brainwashing tactics did not prove to be long lasting on enough voters so now we see him testing out other illegitimate strategies.

 

Posted by Rixar13  August 5, 2020 at 3:16 pm. From: (US)    

 

Distraction

 

Posted by Lona Goudswaard  August 2, 2020 at 4:38 pm. From: (AU)    

 

Returning to the previous page, I could see that I had indeed chosen number 3 Posted by Lona Goudswaard  August 2, 2020 at 4:35 pm. From: (AU)    

 

I thought I had pushed the number three button, but it hardly matters as I think that he has done it for both reasons.

 

Posted by Mitch D.  August 2, 2020 at 8:54 am. From: (US)   

 

The would-be man, would-be king for life, working on finding whatever way comes to hand not to relinquish the presidency. The good news is that it would take both houses of congress to agree to delay the election, and that is not about t happen. The bad news is that he might create a new crisis (war with Iran?) to try to bluster his way past the January 20th “bye now!” deadline. He can’t simply dismiss congress, as other autocrats have done with their parliaments, though he might try, with the help of Barr, to work around that. Bottom line: He is not going to go easily!

 

Posted by Pat B  August 2, 2020 at 8:40 am. From: (US)    

 

Postponing the elections? The results would be fraudulent? He’s drawing straws, deflecting the important issues, talking incoherently, and doing nothing for assistance with the pandemic with Americans losing their lives every day. Imho, by him trying to postpone the election, he’s admitting that he’s in a rock and a hard place right now. I think it will get worse for him, as time goes by.

 

Posted by Joanne D  August 2, 2020 at 8:06 am. From: (US)    

 

I don’t know for a fact that he is setting up a coup, but I do know for a fact that we had better assume that he is and plan to avert it. One of Murphy’s Laws reads something like “The distraction that you are dismissing is the real attack.” Not word-for-word accurate, but all too accurate in meaning.

 

I voted with the majority.  I should have included a “Both” response, as I now think that one is the best answer.  The trial balloon hypothesis also has merit.

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Here are the results of our “Trump Let Russia Murder Our Troops” Poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect the thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

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Posted by Lynn Squance  July 30, 2020 at 7:55 am. From:  (CA)    

 

This morning (30/07/20), Trump “floated” the idea of delaying the November election which he has no authority to do according to Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution, such authority belonging to the Congress. If he actually tries this, I would hope that even his supporters (I won’t hold my breath!) would see this as a desperate attempt to subvert the rule of law (the Constitution) and the will of the people. This is clearly a move for his own interests since other credible options for the election have been floated but met with resistance by Trump and some Republicans. In my non legal opinion, if Trump carried out his “suggestion”, the word treason comes to mind. After all, does not his oath of office include the words “all enemies, foreign and domestic” (or words to that effect)! Trump needs to go and the sooner, the better!

 

Posted by jl  July 3, 2020 at 3:20 am. From: (US)    

 

The assumption that the G7 effort was directly tied to the bounties effort probably has too little evidence–could well be continued effort for 2016 and/or 2020 election, for example…might need to include multiple instances of actions helping Russia vs. protecting/helping U.S. to support a charge of treason.

 

Posted by JL in reply to jl  20 hours ago.  From:  (US)    

 

I think now that the postponing election idea has been floated, with condemnation by so many GOP voices, including co-founder of The Federalist Society, that this one is now the impeachable issue that will garner sufficient GOP support to actually convict.

 

Posted by P Bowen  July 2, 2020 at 3:56 am. From: (US)    

 

As the President of the United States, this man has done everything and acts for the good of Russia. As President he has lied, deflected, and acted as a foreign agent (for Putin), and has hobnobbed with the dictators. He needs to be impeached.

 

Posted by Lynn Squance  July 1, 2020 at 4:39 pm. From:  (CA)    

 

I voted “treason and impeach” however I doubt that this meets the legal definition of treason. Having said that, his actions are completely against the US common good and I would think against his oath of office. I believe he should be impeached by the House but the Republican Senate will never convict, just like the last time. But WOW — a president impeached twice during his first and hopefully only term. That is another high point, or low point if you like, to Trump’s BS residency! I hope that the law can come after him once he is out of office in 01/2021. Benedict Arnold will come up a bit only to be replaced by Donald J Trump at the bottom of the American ash heap.

 

Posted by Lona Goudswaard  July 1, 2020 at 4:03 pm. From:  (AU)    

 

I understand that strictly legally speaking this isn’t treason. Hardly anything is. But as a President, he should be impeached for it. But then he should have been impeached for so many other things too but never was, right?

 

Posted by Colleen L  July 1, 2020 at 11:34 am. From:  (US)    

 

It has come down to where tRump has gotten away with so many criminal acts, that it surprises me that he’s still capable of sitting in the Oval Office.

Again he’s using his usual saying, that he wasn’t told, or knew anything about it. When we have others saying that it was brought up to his at a certain date meeting.

He has shown more respect for Russia than he has for the U.S. We’ve seen it when he was belittling the CIA when there checking the Russia involvement with his election.

I hope they actually something about this and that it’s not just something that gets ignored or forgotten.

 

Posted by Joanne D  July 1, 2020 at 7:50 am. From:  (US)    

 

I have to draw a distinction between what is actually in the Constitution and what our principles and beliefs, as well as the use of a word in the language, overwhelmingly tell us. With that distinction, it is not treason. I could put it differently and say, sure it’s treason – butit doesn’t fit the legal definition of treason, which is so narrow that no one could ever be convicted on it. But that doesn’t mean he cannot be impeached on it. While it is not as cut and dried legally as extortion, it carries a heck of a lot more emotion, and more people in both parties are more disturbed by it than they were by extortion – especially by extortion of foreign nation – “are those even people?”

I voted with the vast majority that it is treason, and Congress should impeach Trump*.  I called it treason, because, although undeclared, Afghanistan is a shooting war, and for Russia to finance killing our troops is an act of war against the US.  Trump* is aiding and abetting Russia in that act of war, and that’s treason.  Although the Republican bastards in the Senate will not do their job and convict Trump*, he should be impeached because we have a duty to do so, and because it’s the right thing to do.  Trump* should be Trump**. or even Trump********************.

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