Leonid Slutsky: “Trump’s calls to postpone the election of the American president are definitely an internal affair of the United States”


Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs:

“Trump’s calls to postpone the election of the American president are, of course, an internal affair of the United States. But, obviously, this could be a ploy by the 45th US president to restore a favorable electoral background. The confidence of American voters has been undermined in the current government due to the crisis in the country. The US economy has broken records of decline today, the situation with the coronavirus is still not reaching encouraging indicators. According to opinion polls, Trump’s most likely challenger, Joe Biden, is 2-10 percentage points ahead of him. And all this is also due to the fact that voters, again, are mostly unhappy with the way the current administration is acting in a pandemic. Now it is difficult to predict something, but I do not exclude that in this way Trump, who claims to retain his seat in the White House, wants to pull the blanket over himself.”

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