De suggestie om de verkiezingen uit te stellen valt niet in goede aarde. Zelfs oerconservatieve media, zoals The Wall Street Journal en The National Review maken in hun editorial brandhout van Donald Trump
Wall Street Journal
"This is not to suggest that the November election will be "rigged", as Mr Trump asserts. If he believes that, he should reconsider his participation and let someone run who isn't looking for an excuse to blame defeat"
The National Review
"Delaying the Election would be grotesque and Un-American
President Trump outdid himself ... with a tweet floating the idea of delaying the election. Obviously, this is an incendiary and absurd idea unworthy of being spoken - or even thought - by a president of the United States"
It is a tribute to our commitment to self-government that elections have occurred as scheduled on this day during the worst crises of American history — when federal troops were in the field against rebel troops who sought to destroy the nation, when the unemployment rate was 25 percent, when U.S. forces were engaged in an epic struggle to save the West from the depredations of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Trump doesn’t understand this, or doesn’t care. It is another indication of how little he’s let the institution of the presidency shape him, and how selfishly he approaches his duties."
Dit zijn twee kranten die Trump zijn blijven steunen de voorbije jaren...