Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday predicted President Donald Trump will try to delay the 2020 presidential election in a ploy to snag a reelection victory.

“Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” Biden said, according to a pool report of an online campaign event. “That’s the only way he thinks he can possibly win.”


Biden has repeatedly blasted the idea of delaying the general election, even after multiple states delayed primaries and caucuses due to the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats are pushing to expand mail-in voting for the general election to accommodate social distancing guidelines. But Senate Republicans and the Trump administration are resisting doing so, arguing it would be imposing federal guidelines in a domain reserved for the states.