Republicans push back against Trump’s suggestion to delay US election

The president does not have the power to move the election date on his own and would need congressional approval to do so.

Influential Republicans have pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s suggestion it might be necessary to delay November’s election.

Republican members of Congress moved to reassure voters that the election would proceed on the constitutionally mandated day, as it has for more than two centuries, after Mr Trump floated the idea.