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WANTS POSTPONING THE ELECTION? What is behind Trump's shocking proposal: It is no coincidence that he published a controversial idea today Even for Trump, suggesting a postponement of the election would be a remarkable violation of the president’s reputation By: Željko TrkanjecPublished: July 30, 2020 6:15 p.m. Donald Trump Donald Trump Jim Watson / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS Donald Trump NEW SHOCK FOR NOW Trump proposes postponing November elections: 'Election fraud threatens' STUNNING FIGURES The US economy has sunk totally: 'This is by far the biggest drop in the country's history' "By universal mail voting (not by voting for those who are absent, which is good) the 2020 election will be the MOST REGULAR & FAIREST in history. It will be a great shame for the US. Let's postpone the election until people can vote properly and safely ???" With this tweet, US President Donald Trump only confirmed the fears of all observers that he would try in any way to prevent the holding of elections in November this year. According to The New York Times, this is the first time Trump has openly said the election should be postponed. He now cites the epidemic as the reason, but, on the other hand, he demands that schools be opened. The Washington Post states that the U.S. Constitution gives it the power to regulate the “time, place, and manner” of elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate, both houses of Congress. And only Congress is authorized to change the rules. Nowhere is this right even mentioned as a possible part of the president's powers. But that is why the constitution firmly defines that the president’s term ends on January 20 in the year following the presidential election. Even for Mr. Trump, suggesting a postponement of the election would be a remarkable violation of the president’s reputation, and this announcement will only further increase the chances of Mr. Trump and his staunch supporters not accepting the legitimacy of the election if he loses to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden . So the president’s tweet explained to The New York Times. In the U.S., the possibility of Trump and his closest associates deciding to leave the White House is being debated in all political circles. That narrative suddenly began to gain momentum after public support for Trump began to plummet due to a catastrophically poor response to the outbreak of the Covida-19 epidemic. Recent polls show that Biden has an advantage of as much as 10 percent - but, as Tea Trubić Macan from Euractiv.hr wrote , four years ago at this time Hillary Clinton had such an advantage over Trump. Optimists would say that the circumstances are different now, pessimists that four years will surely follow, and realists that a lot depends on the pre-election confrontations. Trump has attacked the possibility as many as 70 times since the end of March, when the idea of ​​voting by mail for all first emerged. His team is very worried because they are afraid that this would lead to a higher turnout, which is one of the preconditions for Biden's victory. Democrats have shown that they can and do react quickly. "Donald Trump is terrified. He knows he's going to lose to Joe Biden. It's going to take each of us to make it happen. See you at the polls on Nov. 3, Donald Trump." So replied Kamala Harris , one of the key candidates for the position of vice president on Joe Biden’s team. Economy decline by 30.6% The tweet in which Donald Trump calls for a postponement of the election was not accidentally published today. Because it was just today that it was announced that the U.S. economy suffered the heaviest decline since the 1940s (hence, the era of World War II) in the second quarter. Gross domestic product decreased by 9.5% in the second quarter compared to the first, a decline equal to an annual rate of 32.9%, according to an estimate by the Ministry of Trade. This is the fastest annual decline on a quarterly basis since 1947, but there is also good news: analysts had predicted a decline of 34.5%. That is why it is not surprising that Wednesday's announcement: The US Federal Reserve reiterated its promise to use all available tools to support the US economy and to keep interest rates close to zero for as long as it takes for the economy to recover from the coronary crisis. the trajectory of the economy will depend significantly on the action of the virus.