With the economy
in crisis mode and deaths continuing to soar,
obviously this is all bad for President Trump's
re-election hopes. And today Trump came up with
a brilliant new strategy for the election:
just don't have one. Fox News alert.
Some breaking news this hour. A tweet from the White House.
President Trump tweeting out a short time ago on the upcoming
presidential election. To be very clear,
the president cannot do that. The Constitution is unambiguous
about this, that Congress-- not a president who may have their own self-interest in
mind-- gets to decide when the leader of
the United States is elected. And to his other point, there
is no evidence, of course, of widespread voter fraud
through mail-in voting, even in states
with all mail-in votes. That's right--
Trump isn't actually allowed to delay the election. Although not being allowed
to do something has never stopped him before. Like, we'll still have
the election on November 3. But he'll probably just
add 100 days to August. And sure, maybe the court
overturns it, but that might not happen
until August 73. And, I mean, this is an
absurd suggestion, I know. We can't reschedule
the election. For starters, both candidates
are, like, 200 years old. I mean, we got to
keep things moving. I'm not even sure
that Trump understands what an alarming proposal
this is. Because this is basically
the move of a dictator. But Trump is casually
throwing it out there in a tweet
with a bunch of question marks, like he's on a group text
trying to bail on happy hour. Hey, y'all, November 3
is not great for me. Maybe we reschedule, 2021?
Thoughts? What do you guys think, huh? And just, by the way,
you remember a few years ago when I said Trump
was an African dictator? You remember that?
Yeah? Yeah? People acted like I was crazy. But this is how it starts. First they just suggest that maybe you postpone
the election. Then they suggest that some of the votes
are not valid. And pretty soon they're saying, "You know what's really unfair? (foreign accent): "That there
are two political parties. "Why are there
two political parties? "Let's just have one. "Then you don't have to worry "about making
all these decisions anymore! America is mine!" Oh, and by the way,
I don't know if you remember, but three months ago Joe Biden predicted
that Trump would try to delay the election. And this is how Trump reacted
back then. I never even thought of changing
the date of the election. Why would I do that? November 3-- it's a good number. Uh, no, I look forward
to that election, and that was just
made-up propaganda. Oh, I love me
some fake Trump outrage. "How dare you? I won't sink that low
for at least three more months." And just by the way,
"November 3 is a good number"? What does that have
to do with anything? Elections aren't decided based on whether the date
is a cool number. If it was, every election
would be held on June 9. Nice. But, look,
regardless of his insane tweets, the chances are
that Trump will not be able to move the election, which means he's going to have
to come up with a plan to win it the old-fashioned
way-- by using racism. President Trump is facing
scrutiny for his words about affordable housing
and the suburbs. He made the comments
while discussing the rollback of a housing rule aimed at
fighting racial discrimination, as Trump works to court
white suburban voters. There will be no more low-income
housing forced into the suburbs. I abandoned and took away
and just rescinded the rule. KENNETH MOTON: The Obama-era
rule forced local governments that receive
federal housing funds to assess patterns of racial
housing discrimination and submit plans
to eliminate it. On Wednesday
the president tweeted, "I am happy to inform
all the people "living their
suburban lifestyle dreams "that you will no longer be
bothered or financially hurt "by having low-income housing
built in your neighborhood. "Your housing prices will go up
based on the market, and crime will go down.
Enjoy." Later in Texas, the president
reaffirming that message. I've seen conflict for years. It's been hell for suburbia. We rescinded the rule
three days ago, so enjoy your life, ladies
and gentlemen, enjoy your life. Okay, first of all,
suburban lifestyle dream sounds like the world's lamest
Katy Perry song, but just in case
it wasn't clear, Trump is saying that he's going
to stop Black people from moving into white people's
neighborhood. I mean, it's not even
subtle enough to call that a dog whistle. It's too loud. It's more like a dog steel drum. ♪ I won't let the Black people
live near you. ♪ (vocalizing) Now, look, I don't know
why having Black people move into your neighborhood
is a bad thing, but apparently it's so scary, the Trump campaign has already
made it into a horror movie. (laughter) NARRATOR: They were living
the dream lifestyle. They thought the high property
values would never end. Until one day... -(screaming) -From the team that
brought you migrant caravans... ...comes a whole new
election season fear. What happens when your street
goes from suburban to urban? (doorbell rings) (woman screams) This fall. (laughter) Damn, I'm Black
and I'm still scared.
