The White House’s top spokesperson denounced Hong Kong’s decision to delay its elections as anti-democratic, one day after Trump suggested that the U.S. postpone its own election
announced
earlier Friday that the semi-autonomous Chinese city would push back to Sept. 5, 2021 the Legislative Council elections previously scheduled to take place in a little over a month. McEnany said Lam’s invocation of her emergency powers to force the rescheduling represented “only the most recent in a growing list of broken promises by Beijing, which promised autonomy and freedoms to the Hong Kong people until 2047 in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.”
The White House statement followed Trump’s tweet Thursday proposing that the U.S. delay its general election, now less than 100 days away, because of his unsubstantiated predictions of widespread mail-in voter fraud.the president appeared to
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