The Los Angeles Times reported that “legal scholars are widely in agreement” that the president does not have the power to delay a presidential election citing a national emergency. “The 20th Amendment says if we have not chosen a president by a certain date, it goes to succession,” Rick Hasen [Chancellor’s Professor], an election law scholar at UC Irvine, told the LA Times. “It’s not like a delay would keep Trump in office longer.”
Trump may delay 2020 election due to coronavirus citing Ohio primary postponement, says Senator Sherrod Brown
Meaww, March 20, 2020
March 20, 2020