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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump will claim that there can't be elections while the US is at war.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's never happened. Everyone is saying so. Very biggly.

Except it absolutely has happened...

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It’s never happened. Everyone is saying so. Very biggly.

Not only that, tRump critized Zeleneskyy for not holding elections precisely because the Ukranian constitution (or equivalent) does suspend elections...

[–] Ultraword@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Just like how Netanyahu and Zelenskyy do it in their countries

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

this is the only comment in this thread to get more than one downvote and i think it's indicative of how likely it is to happen here since they don't like this message so much that they felt the need to take action to suppress it.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes? That's exactly what I meant.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The USA constitution does not have such a escape valve to hold elections when in war... other countries may (and tRump, idiotic as he is, complained about Zeleneskyy regarding this specifically)