1) Lie about voter fraud in mail-in ballots. 2) Push base to vote in person. 3) Slow down mail so fewer ballots received by Nov 3. 4) Falsely declare victory on Nov 3. 5) Challenge ballots counted after Nov 3 in SCOTUS.
I think it'll fail.
Trump undermined this strategy by telling on himself.
He announced his USPS sabotage and why he appointed Barrett.
Dems responded with HUGE early turnout, getting mail ballots in early and voting in-person.
Wide Dem margins and/or early Biden red state leads would thwart this.
On top of that, the media won't play ball. In 2000, Gore had to deal with the perception he lost because the media reversed the Florida projection. That hung over his recount efforts.
That won't happen. Media and social media is prepared for Trump's false declaration of victory.
If a challenge does get up to SCOTUS, Trump's argument is all predicated on pure lies. Would they really throw out ballots with zero evidence? Not likely.
For the same reason Barr hasn't charged Biden, I don't think SCOTUS would do this. Trump's public pressure taints them.
I know all that sounds optimistic, but I think the most likely outcome, is that Trump's efforts to steal the election will fail, and his whining will ultimately just serve as an excuse for his loss.
The real danger comes from how his base will react to his loss.
Trump wants us to think he’s all powerful but he’s not.
If you want an indication of his growing weakness, look no further than McConnell rebuffing Trump’s attempt to get a stimulus deal & instead opting to sabotage the incoming Biden admin’s economy.
Trump has been an incredibly incompetent wannabe autocrat.
The decentralized nature of how America runs our state elections also makes this plot more difficult for him. He’s corrupted much of America, but enough of it.
He doesn’t have the brains or popularity to pull this off.
While in Michigan, one week after radical right terrorists were arrested for plotting to kidnap and do an extrajudicial execution of Governor Whitmer, President Trump attacks Whitmer and then echos a “lock her up” chant.
This is vile, disgusting, authoritarian depravity.
Saying “don’t be afraid of Covid” is the exact opposite of what he should be saying to the country right now. This man is reckless. After getting this virus he's taking it even less seriously. Absurd.
There is absolutely nothing that can happen to Donald Trump to make him have a moment of decency. Nothing.
Just because he has access to the best care in the country doesn’t mean the rest of America does. What a dangerous, foolish message to send to the Americans.
This horrifying piece confirms my theory that Trump attacked mail in voting to get his base to vote in person so he could declare victory the night of the election & claim the delayed, mostly Dem tallies are fraudulent. But it may have backfired and Dems are now voting in person.
The early in person voting lines is why I think Trump’s mail-in voting lies and attacks on the USPS backfired.
This new nickname will surely make voters forget the fact over 180k people have died due to a pandemic Trump mishandled and the economy remains in tatters.
This is seriously insane. People are really out here falsely claiming that anyone who had another underlying condition when they died of COVID-19 doesn’t count as a COVID-19 death?
They would’ve been alive if they didn’t get COVID-19. That was the cause of their death…
How does Daniel Cameron, who hasn’t gotten justice for Breonna Taylor, appeal to black people?
How are false smears of socialism effective?
How is Melania‘s speech a home run if it was hypocritical?
Optics journalism.
For the most part, journalists have learned lessons from 2016. But every now and then, they dip back into their reflexive bag of false objectivity & attempt to treat this like it’s not an aspiring authoritarian regime.
This kind of nonsense is exactly why we founded @RanttMedia.