{"id":154419,"date":"2020-07-30T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/30\/trump-calls-for-delay-to-election-claiming-mail-in-voting-will-lead-to-fraud-live\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:47:40","slug":"trump-calls-for-delay-to-election-claiming-mail-in-voting-will-lead-to-fraud-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=154419","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for delay to election, claiming mail-in voting will lead to fraud \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump makes unprecedented move of calling election \u2018inaccurate\u2019 in advanceEconomy suffers worst quarter since second world war as GDP shrinks by 32.9%US passes 150,000 deathsJoe Biden\u2019s running mate &#8211; none will satisfy all sections of the partySign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.47pm BST The Guardian\u2019s voting rights report, Sam Levine, notes that the president can\u2019t unilaterally change the election date. The president cannot unilaterally move the election. The date of the election is set by Congress. The constitution says the President and Vice President&#8217;s term ends on January 20 https:\/\/t.co\/LMVTeCOgRs https:\/\/t.co\/LOz4qLjDBH Related: US economy suffers worst quarter since the second world war as GDP shrinks by 32.9% 2.35pm BST Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is appearing before the Senate foreign relations committee for the first time in more than a year, in what is already a particularly contentious hearing. The ranking Democrat, Bob Menendez said the Trump administration had \u201cat worst simply abetted Putin\u2019s efforts\u201d to undermine the US, and said the state department was \u201cat risk of catastrophic failure.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jul\/30\/us-coronavirus-mike-pompeo-senate-donald-trump-john-lewis-joe-biden-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Trump calls for delay to election, claiming mail-in voting will lead to fraud \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump makes unprecedented move of calling election \u2018inaccurate\u2019 in advanceEconomy suffers worst quarter since second world war as GDP shrinks by 32.9%US passes 150,000 deathsJoe Biden\u2019s running mate &#8211; none will satisfy all sections of the partySign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.47pm BST The Guardian\u2019s voting rights report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}