washington us president donald trump seems ready to torpedo the november 2020 presidential election and extend his hold on power in america even though it is not his call to makein a pair of tweets that caused a surge of animated arguments in political circles and social media trump called for delaying the election citing dubious claims of fraud and inaccuracy with universal mailin voting not absentee voting which is good 2020 will be the most inaccurate fraudulent election in history it will be a great embarrassment to the usa he wrote in one tweet asking delay the election until people can properly securely and safely voteonly the congress is empowered to delay or change election day in america which is set in constitutional stone to be held every four years on the first tuesday after november 1 but trump has cast aspersions on the process scores of times over the past few months while making all kinds of dodgy claimsmailin voting is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster even testing areas are way off the dems talk of foreign influence in voting but they know that mailin voting is an easy way for foreign countries to enter the race even beyond that theres no accurate count trump said in another tweettrumps attack on the election process comes even as polls show him trailing his democratic challenger joe biden by ever widening margins ranging from 715 per cent i shortly before his latest salvo came the shock news that the us economy had contracted by 33 in apriljune quarter the worst quarter ever because the coronavirus pandemic has shut down businesses thrown tens of millions out of work and caused 15 per cent unemployment trump has long cast aspersions on the us elections although its imperfections are what put him in office even in the best of circumstances us elections are jumble of inconsistent rules that vary by state and even county gerrymandered districts constituencies cartographically manipulated to get a desired outcome and an archaic electoral college system that gives disproportionate weight and representation to thinly populated whitemajority states at the expense of nationwide popular votetrump won the presidency in 2016 despite a walloping in the popular ballots getting 285 million less votes than hillary clinton but winning three crucial states michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania by a combined 80000 ballots to get their full complement of electoral votes that put him over the 270 mark requiredsince then he has repeatedly attacked mailin voting which millions of citizens spooked by the coronavirus pandemic are expected to resort to while ignoring other more questionable practices including a range of voter suppression tactics aimed at disenfranchising minorities trumps own coronavirusskeptic base is yearning for inperson voting even though the president and several of his family members and aides have all used mailin voting in the pastmany trump rivals and critics including hillary clinton and joe biden have warned of an impending crisis for democracy in america citing trumps