White House steps back from Donald Trump's call for delayed election
Aug. 3 - The White House has no plans to try to delay the US presidential election this year, its chief of staff says, even as he defends a tweet from US President Donald Trump raising the possibility
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“We're going to hold an election on November 3, and the president is going to win,” Mark Meadows told CBS News.
Trump's tweet on Thursday (local time), which set off alarm bells throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to untenable delays in counting votes, Meadows insisted.
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Aug. 3 - The White House has no plans to try to delay the US presidential election this year, its chief of staff says, even as he defends a tweet from US President Donald Trump raising the possibility
.
“We're going to hold an election on November 3, and the president is going to win,” Mark Meadows told CBS News.
Trump's tweet on Thursday (local time), which set off alarm bells throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to untenable delays in counting votes, Meadows insisted.
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