There are still three weeks until election night, but I'm now ready to make my predictions with complete confidence. No matter which presidential candidate is in the lead that night, and no matter how many votes still need to be counted, Donald Trump will claim victory and dare the world to disagree.
Maybe it is “Red Mirage” Trump appears to have an advantage, but that's because absentee ballots have not yet been counted.
Or maybe it's just because it is. what happened last timewhen Trump took Rudy Giuliani's advice and announced that he ultimately lost but won.
Report reveals what happened behind the scenes that night in 2020 there was a real discussion The Trump campaign is debating whether to make such an outrageous claim. But this time, there was not a moment's hesitation.
Because it's just one more step in a massive MAGA election interference dirty tricks scheme already underway on multiple fronts aimed at preventing Trump's defeat at all costs.
It is a scheme that covers.Plant supporters in local election officesTowards changes to election lawin major states(andgetting really closechanges at the federal level), to filing multiple lawsuits before Election Day.
There isclose to 90Those lawsuits have already ended. new york timesreportThey are “concentrated in battleground states and key counties that are likely to swing the race.” He added: “Some people support the debunked theories of voter fraud and so-called stolen elections that Mr. Trump has promoted since 2020.”
meanwhile,Trump himself is softening the ground.For completely denying Kamala Harris' victory with lie after lie, that it is unconstitutional for Democrats to nominate Harris over Joe Biden, and that the only way Harris can win is by cheating. The fact is that the electoral system is plagued by voter fraud.
It's important to shout all of this out loud in case someone, somewhere still thinks this is going to be a “normal” election where both sides respect the process, every vote is counted, and gracefully accepts winners and losers. is.
On the one hand, it probably won't. And we have to brace ourselves.
It is very likely that the final election results will not be known within 24 hours after the polls close.Some major states, such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, have not even begun counting mail-in votes.Until election day.Arizona and Georgia want to impose new rulesAll ballots require a laborious manual counting process.
If the election is as close as polls suggest, we may not know for days.
That's if everything goes well, but that's not guaranteed.
On the other hand, every window of uncertainty is a window of opportunity for Trump supporters.
They won't have to convince all of America that he's already won. All they have to do is muddy the waters, activate the right-wing media apparatus, and tie everything up in court.
So how do we fight back? By staying ahead of the schemers.
That means vaccination. Sound the alarm early and often on a plan so fewer people buy it. And counter falsehoods with facts.
It means mobilizing large numbers of voters to overcomevote suppression law.
It means the existence of a responsible mainstream media that counters right-wing propaganda machines.
I think the last Trump administration cured many reporters' “problems.”Two-sidedness”it brought us a torrentHillary Clinton's email story. That's good. In an atmosphere that deliberately obfuscates the Republican Party, what is needed is a reporter who can keep his eye on the ball.
I also hope and believe that there will once again be principled people across the country who will resist attempts to confuse the results. What I'm thinking isTwo Michigan Republican state legislators flew to Washington with President TrumpLate November 2020.
He called for the state to refuse to certify Biden's election results. Those two honest patriots wouldn't do that.
Fasten your seatbelts, because the roller coaster of 2024 won't end on election night. In fact, it may just be the beginning.
And there are many things we can do to get through it safely.
Mr. Svante Myrickamerican people.
