Trump claims without evidence that Wisconsin's governor wants to move the primary to stop a conservative justice from getting elected. Gov. Evers requested the change because of the coronavirus.

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• At Friday's White House briefing dedicated to the administration's response to the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that Wisconsin's Democratic governor wanted to move the primary to prevent a conservative justice from being elected to the state's Supreme Court.
• Gov. Tony Evers is currently locked in battle with the Republican-controlled legislature to move the primary from April 7 to entirely vote by mail, with ballots due at the end of May.
• Evers wants to move the primary because of fears that it cannot be conducted safely or effectively because of the coronavirus. Thousands of poll workers have refused to work, while many remaining ones fear for their safety, The New York Times reported.
• But Trump claimed that after he tweeted an endorsement of Justice Daniel Kelly on Friday, "I hear what happened is his poll numbers went through the roof. And because of that, I think they delayed the election."
• Over a dozen states — including some controlled by Republican governors — have already postponed their primary due to the coronavirus.
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President Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that Wisconsin was attempting to postpone its April 7 primary in order to prevent a conservative justice he endorsed from winning his election.

In fact, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, has asked the state's Republican-controlled legislature to delay and modify the primary because of fears that the state cannot safely and effectively conduct an in-person election because of the threat posed by the coronavirus.

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