Republican senators seem to be universally rejecting the idea of delaying the election. Thread -->

Sen. @ChuckGrassley on Trump's election delay tweet: "All these things are pretty well set and have been going on for decades. And so we're a country based on the rule of law so nobody's going to change anything until we change the law."

Sen. @TedCruz: “I think election fraud is a serious problem and we need to fight it and stop it. But no, we should not delay the election.”

Sen. @marcorubio: "In 1845 we had an election on the first Tuesday after November 1st, and we're going to have one again this year."

Sen. @PatToomey: "I do not support moving the presidential election and the president does not have the unilateral authority to do so. However the president is right to point out that universally mailing ballots to people who don't request them...would likely lead to voter fraud"

Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC: “I don’t believe we should delay the elections. Delaying the election probably wouldn’t be a good idea. I think we can be able to safely vote in person in November.”

. @SenJohnBarrasso: "No we're not going to delay the election...We may not know on Election Night the balance of the House of Representatives or the Senate or the presidency.But we will not delay the elections"

Sen. @MittRomney: "The election will be held on the date set by Congress, the historic date. And with regards to mail-in voting, in my state we've had it for some time. It works extremely well the great majority -- I think almost 90% -- of our voters vote by mail."

. @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell on WNKY television: "Well, never in the history of the country through wars and depressions and the Civil War have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we'll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3."

. @SenAlexander: "We've had elections during wars. We've had elections during depressions. We’ve had elections during civil unrest, we should have our election when it's scheduled in November and I'm sure we will." 1/2

. @SenAlexander: "I think that the president's term and the VP’s term expires on Jan. 20 and if we were to delay the election past Jan. 20, the president would be the Speaker of the House. So I wonder if anyone's thought about that. I'm just going to go check the Constitution..."

. @SenRickScott: "I don't agree with delaying the election."

Sen. @ThomTillis: "The election is going to happen in November, period." https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1288856955424051206?s=20

Sen. @RoyBunt: “The United States held elections during the Civil War, the 1918 pandemic, and World War II. There is no justification for changing the date of the upcoming November elections.” https://twitter.com/BryanLowry3/status/1288907119178190848?s=20