1. Claim that mail-in voting encourages voter fraud and election theft. 2. Discourage your supporters from voting by mail. 3. Ensure that mail-in ballots can't be counted before Wednesday morning. 4. Demand to know the results by Tuesday night.
Trump declaring victory prematurely isn’t *sufficient* to steal the election, but it is a *necessary precondition* to pull it off.
Maybe it won’t work, maybe Biden will win by such a large margin PA doesn’t matter, maybe the lawfare fails, but the fact that he’s saying this all out loud is itself raising tensions and increasing risk to a dangerous point.
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