My Fellow Americans,
On Wednesday, July 30 at 7:46 a.m. Eastern Time, President Donald J. Trump tweeted to the nation and world the idea of delaying the 2020 United States Presidential Election. In our nation’s 244 year history, the presidential election has never been delayed, not through the Civil War, World Wars, economic crashes or past pandemics has a delay ever been floated in the open. The very whisper of a delay poses grave questions of the intentions of this president and the integrity and validity of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections. Democracies and Republics everywhere are rightly concerned by the president’s statement, as am I.
Whether by jest or a legitimate question, the President has exceeded his Constitutional and statutory bounds by questioning a delay as only Congress and the States may delay Congressional and Presidential elections. To reinstate trust in the November elections, I ask that you, as fellow Americans, and our state and federal representatives publicly rebuke the President for his flagrant disregard for the separation of powers and his willful intention to instill fear and confusion in the presidential election’s integrity and validity.
Zachary T. Pendroy
Monroe