And his claim that mail-in voting would make the election “inaccurate and fraudulent” is false.
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𝐀. No. The date of the general election — the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November — is set by federal law and has been fixed since 1845.
It would take a change in federal law to move the date.
𝐀. The House, which is controlled by Democrats; the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans; and President Trump would all have to agree.
To say that’s unlikely is an understatement.
𝐀. Yes, states have broad autonomy to schedule and run their own primary elections.
16 states and 2 territories either delayed their presidential primaries or extended vote-by-mail deadlines.
𝐀. No. Studies have shown that all forms of voting fraud are very rare in the U.S. A panel Trump established to investigate election corruption was disbanded in 2018 after it found no real evidence of fraud.