No, the President can not delay the 2020 election amid coronavirus scare

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"Can President Trump delay the 2020 election due to the coronavirus?" he asked. To find out, The Verify team reached out to Gary Nordlinger, a professor at The George Washington University, and Paul Smith from Georgetown Law. Both professors pointed the Verify team to the Presidential Election Day Act, which was passed in 1845. This law mandated that the election for president would be set on the "Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November." 

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