Late-night hosts decry Trump wanting to delay election: 'Incinerating American democracy'

On Thursday, President Donald Trump floated the idea of delaying the 2020 election and baselessly declared that universal mail-in voting would lead to "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history." The president does not have the authority to delay the presidential election.

Meyers, speaking from his at-home Late Night desk, summed up the last week for us: "We're less than a hundred days from the presidential election, the economy just had its largest contraction in history, there were more than a million jobless claims for the 19th week in a row, states are recording an increase in deaths from an out-of-control pandemic, and a lawless aspiring autocrat, who I guess also believes in demon sperm, is sending secret police to American cities to round up protestors while gutting the post office to delay mail-in votes, ignoring Supreme Court decisions, signaling that he'll refuse to accept the outcome of the election, and is now calling for that election to be delayed even though he obviously doesn't have the power to do it.".

On The Daily Show, Noah said he isn't sure "Trump understands what an alarming proposal this is because this is basically the move of a dictator where Trump is just 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 a happy hour." Just because Trump doesn't have the authority to delay the election, both hosts say it shouldn't be ignored.

Noah pointed out how Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden suggested a few months ago that Trump might try to delay the election?