09-23-2020, 03:15 PM
Article on Drudge today says Trump campaign operatives and Republican state-level officials are now concocting contingency plans to bypass election results should Trump lose. The long and short of it entails Trump convincing electors (as in electoral college members) to vote for him in swing states that have close counts in spite of what vote counts bear out. The justification for this will be alleged voter fraud and convincing the electors of it.
He's already laying the groundwork for a fraud allegation, despite little to no evidence of it. Nevada threw the administration's case out due to lack of evidence. Evidence will not matter to Trump loyalists on the authoritarian right. They want an autocrat, and it makes sense to use autocratic means to install/maintain one.
One sad/hilarious quote from the article was (paraphrasing): "While we as a nation are used to deciding who wins elections by popular (at state level) votes, the Constitution in no way says it has to be done that way."
Wow. That's where we are, people.
He's already laying the groundwork for a fraud allegation, despite little to no evidence of it. Nevada threw the administration's case out due to lack of evidence. Evidence will not matter to Trump loyalists on the authoritarian right. They want an autocrat, and it makes sense to use autocratic means to install/maintain one.
One sad/hilarious quote from the article was (paraphrasing): "While we as a nation are used to deciding who wins elections by popular (at state level) votes, the Constitution in no way says it has to be done that way."
Wow. That's where we are, people.
