Just remember: the cringeworthiness level doesn't peak with this one

Remember yesterday, how, with one tweet, the Very Stable Genius put stink all over a very good policy move? How it opened up new avenues of opportunity for leftists who not only cannot stand the VSG as an individual but know what a great job he does of presenting the worst possible image of conservatism?

He's outdone himself:

Donald J. Trump

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With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???

Hello, my name is Donald Trump and I want to sound as insecure about my political prospects and as clueless about what federal law requires as possible. 

Now, the VSG is on record as being cool with absentee ballots, but they are the same thing as mail-in ballots. 

Republicans, who, as I have said over and over and over again since mid-2015, should have never taken him seriously, are distancing themselves from this nonsense:

“He can suggest whatever he wants. The law is what it is. We’re going to have an election that’s legitimate, it’s going to be credible, it’s going to be the same as we’ve always done it,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters.

and

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is in the line of succession for the presidency as the president pro tempore of the Senate, dismissed Trump’s tweet as just the opinion of one person, noting that it would take an act of Congress to change the date of a federal election.

“It doesn’t matter what one individual in this country says,” Grassley said. “We still are a country based on the rule of law. And we must follow the law until either the Constitution is changed or until the law is changed.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) similarly said he opposes pushing back the date of the election. “No way should we ever not hold an election on the day that we have it,” McCarthy told reporters.

Let us not kid ourselves. If he can ratchet up the ridiculousness levels we've seen this week, it's not going to plateau there.