Trump suggests postponing the election

With 96 days to go before the U.S. elections, President Donald Trump, who is running for re-election, suggested postponing them Thursday, arguing that the use of absentee voting will make these elections "the most fraudulent in history. 

Trump, who in 2016 received some 3 million fewer popular votes than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and became President because of the Electoral College votes, now appears in most polls behind his potential rival, Democrat Joe Biden.  

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many state officials, the Democratic Party and civil society organizations are promoting a mail ballot for the November 3 election, which, in addition to deciding the presidency, will renew one-third of the Senate and all members of the House of Representatives. 

"With universal absentee voting (which is different from absentee voting, which is good) the 2020 election will be the most PRECISE and FRAUDULENT election in history," Trump said on his Twitter account. 

"It will be a great embarrassment to America," Trump wrote, and then proposed, "Postponing the election until citizens can vote properly and safely? "

In a recent interview with FOX, Trump had already suggested that he would "have to see" if he accepted the election result, something he had also done a few weeks before the 2016 election. 

In 244 years of the Republic's existence, no national election has ever been suspended in the United States, not even the one in 1864, which occurred when the country was in the third year of its Civil War. 

According to the Constitution, the president of the United States has no legal authority to postpone or cancel an election, and "Congress shall determine the date of the election of the electors, and the day on which they shall cast their votes, with that date applicable to the whole country".