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Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Commissioner Ellen Weintraub flatly stated on Thursday that the executive branch does not have the power to delay a presidential election after President Trump stirred an uproar by raising the idea in an early morning tweet.
“No, Mr. President. No,” Weintraub said in a statement shared on Twitter. "You don't have the power to move the election. Nor should it be moved." "States and localities are asking you and Congress for funds so they can properly run the safe and secure elections all Americans want," she added. "Why don't you work on that?"
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Trump news – live today: President calls for 2020 election to be delayed as his ally Herman Cain dies after contracting coronavirus.
Donald Trump's ally Herman Cain has died after he was hospitalised with the coronavirus. The man attended Mr Trump's Tulsa rally in June and was pictured not wearing a mask, but it was unclear if that was where he first contracted the novel virus.
This comes as the president has suggested for the first time that 2020's presidential election could be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic, because he says - without evidence - that a nationwide mail-in ballot system would create "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."