I'm seeing some magical thinking about circumstances in which Trump or SCOTUS could steal the election, specifically folks saying that if the Electoral College is close, it's categorically doom for Biden. I think that's a huge oversimplification, and a dangerous one.
SCOTUS was able to rig the election in 2000 because Florida was essentially a coin flip. Give Gore ten thousand more election-night votes, and he'd have been president. Period.
Are there states where we need to worry about even a one or two point Biden lead this time? Yes. But those are specific states where we need to worry for specific reasons.
I had someone tell me that if Biden wins the EC 270-268, Trump's going to steal it. But that's not based in anything but panic. It matters which states give Biden the 270, and how big the margins are in those states, and how the whole thing goes down. None of it is a GOP lock.
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