Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Thursday that he believes Donald Trump will try to postpone the presidential election in November amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“This president, mark my words, I think he’s going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with a rationale why it can’t be held,” Biden told donors during an online fundraiser.

Biden called on Congress to allocate enough money for every state to allow voters to cast mail-in-ballots.

The former vice president pointed to Trump’s efforts to block emergency funding for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service — which would handle tens of millions of ballots this fall — as evidence that the president is already trying to “undermine” the election.

“We have to make it easier for everybody to be able to vote, particularly if we are still basically in the kind of lockdown circumstances we are in now,” Biden told about 650 donors. “But that takes a lot of money, and it’s going to require us to provide money for states and insist they provide mail-in ballots.”

Biden didn’t suggest scrapping in-person voting but said officials should be working other options while making sure polling sites meet public health guidelines.

Congress sets the date and it seems highly improbable that the Democratic-controlled House would agree to move it back. An executive order to change the date would certainly be challenged in court.

Bided slammed Trump for opposing financial support to USPS and said he harming the democratic process by bad-mouthing mail-in voting.

“He’s already trying to undermine the election with false claims of voter fraud and threatening to block essential COVID assistance if any extra funds go to the U.S. Postal Service,” Biden said.

Trump voted by mail in Florida’s presidential primary last month. But he recently said he believes mail voting allows voters to “cheat,” despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections.

With Post Wires