Trump’s fellow Republicans reject his idea of delaying presidential election

Raising the prospect of delaying the November 3 election, US President Donald Trump has drawn ire from both sides of the divide.

FRANCE 24 correspondent Kethevane Gorjestani says the president’s comments in a tweet were designed to distract the public from the country’s diabolical economic figures, which showed GDF shrinking by a record 33 percent in the second quarter, and from the grim coronavirus milestone of 150,000 deaths.