Jared Kushner says he can't for sure 'commit one way or the other' to the November 2020 election due to COVID-19 — 'but right now that's the plan'

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• Jared Kushner, a White House advisor and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, couldn't say for sure whether COVID-19 might lead to the 2020 election being postponed.
• "That's too far in the future to tell," he said in an interview with TIME on Tuesday.
• "It's not my decision to make, so I'm not sure I can commit one way or the other," he added. "But right now that's the plan."
• President Trump cannot unilaterally postpone the 2020 election, as Business Insider has previously reported.
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The US presidential election is on November 3, but when asked if it would still be held then, Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law and White House senior advisor, was not fully committal.

As Business Insider has noted, it is not possible for the White House to unilaterally postpone an election — although Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has worried it is something that President Donald Trump might well try. 

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