"The answer is no," said Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer and voting rights advocate. "Federal law sets the date of the general election … and absent an act of Congress, the date won't change. In the age of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, he says, consider the otherwise straightforward act of casting a ballot. For Trump, the election could be a referendum on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "I think we may see the first presidential campaign that is all television, all video," said Mark Longabaugh, a Democratic strategist and advisor to the Sanders campaign in 2016.

Source: CBC News April 02, 2020 19:56 UTC