Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork.
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WE KNOOOOWWWW. It’s the worst-kept secret in politics. People in other countries are aware. The birds are aware. It’s part and parcel of the experience of fascism. Never underestimate what pure evil is capable of doing.
Be ready, especially if you’re on the east coast.
The rednecks are assuming they’re the only ones with balls and nobody else will stand up to them, like all bullies think.
Prove them wrong.
at a personal level, contact the governor and ask them how you can be certain as a voter that trump won’t steal the election like he tried in 2020.
let them know you’re paying attention.
Save up so you can buy a bus/train/plane ticket to DC if they try shit. If they do what they’re signaling and the legislature fails us it’ll be down to mass civil disobedience to keep the country from fascism.
I wish I had a better answer, but they’ve eroded so many of our institutions.
Grassroots political activism and civic engagement. A sufficiently large victory would help discredit their methods going into the future. In the shorter term, our own legions of poll watchers will provide additional witnesses to offer witness testimony when things inevitably land in court.
Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.
That won’t be a problem for them. Republicans spurn only until it’s to their personal advantage to un-spurn.
He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president
This seems like the most likely outcome. System needs reform.
Reform is a compromise. The system needs to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
He doesn’t control the federal government this time, so his chances are worse this time.
Not exactly. Nobody controls them. They can do whatever they want, and they often do things that he likes.
So think about the situation. The Supreme Court can try to rule in Trump’s favor, and depending on the details, that would essentially be a coup d’etat. If they try that and fail, they will probably have permanently ended their careers, and I think they would be risking their freedom. And they know it.
It makes sense, right? You can’t easily run them through the court system because they outrank everyone, which makes extra judicial action more likely.
So they could rule in favor of Trump, again depending on whatever hypothetical we’re considering, but I think they would only risk doing that in very narrow circumstances. They didn’t get where they are by sticking their neck out for others. They got it by taking bribes and being opportunistic sleaze bags, by putting themselves first.
The plan is pretty simple.
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Win PA, hold the red states. Trump Wins.
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If a red state falls, get it’s leadership to declare a Republican win anyway or refuse to send delegates to the Electoral College. This denies Harris EC votes.
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Number 2 may mean neither candidate gets 270 EC votes, in this case a joint session of Congress will decide the election. Unless a miracle happens this will be Trump because they vote by State delegation.
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If Harris wins PA and the Rust Belt, go to SCOTUS.
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If all else fails, go back to January 6th but with rhetoric meant to make the mob want to occupy the Capitol permanently.
They’re already trying to get county clerks and election officials to do the job from the inside. Trump even honors them in person at his rallies. So buckle up for a year where election fraud goes big.
Number 5 may be part of the plan but it won’t work this time. It only worked last time because Trump himself refused to increase security around the Capitol.
Occupy the capitol permanently? As if the military industrial complex doesn’t have special forces squads who specifically train to exterminate this kind of threat. The nanosecond it becomes serious again, shots will be fired into the insurrectionists until they either give up or stop breathing
