{UAH} How to Defeat Trump's Plan to Overturn the elections

https://www.newsweek.com/how-defeat-trumps-plan-overturn-election-opinion-1526242

BY TIMOTHY E. WIRTH AND TOM ROGERS ON 8/20/20 

Since we wrote the piece "How Donald Trump Could Lose the Election and Still Remain President," it has become even more apparent that Donald Trump will attempt to create massive chaos and uncertainty following the November election, even if it is abundantly clear he has lost it. His repeated false statements about mail-in ballots creating election fraud and his efforts to slow U.S. Postal Service operations to impact the election results, as well as his unwillingness to state that he will accept the outcome of the election, make it all too clear that his deep decline in the polls only strengthens his resolve to question the integrity of the election. Trump's recent call to move the date of the election is further indication that he plans to drive a narrative that a fair election cannot be run and he must take extraordinary measures as a result.

As we previously wrote, given the post-election chaos that Trump has been laying the groundwork for, as well as how the courts would likely rule, the ultimate decision on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election may fall to Congress in one way or another. Because of this, it is even more vital that the Democrats win certain congressional races. They could be so important to the presidential election that they must be treated as national races in and of themselves.

Since the pandemic will cause more people to vote by mail, tabulating election results is going to be a far more time-consuming process than normal. In all likelihood, this means that the final outcome in key swing states will probably not be known until the absentee ballots are counted. Most states do not even allow the opening of absentee and mail-in ballots until Election Day itself. The counting process, therefore, is sure to go on for many days, if not weeks. Consider this summer's New York Democratic primary, when it took well over a month to tabulate the winners.

Trump is already foreshadowing that during this period he will sharply question the legitimacy of all the additional votes cast by mail. This becomes even more important, in his eyes, since evidence suggests college-educated voters, which lean very heavily anti-Trump, are more likely to vote by mail. Therefore, as those votes get counted, it is likely to increase the number of ballots that Biden receives relative to Trump, which the president will do everything possible to discredit.

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How much disorder could Trump create with this ploy? After watching what went on in Portland, Oregon, it doesn't take much imagination to see that when civil protests develop, Trump would likely seize the opportunity to send in federal forces to incite violence. While repeating his claims of election fraud, Trump would argue that broad civil unrest requires military-style action in the streets, particularly in swing states. This would play into his anti-democratic narrative that he needs to take extraordinary emergency actions, further entrenching his presidency with "investigations" into the "fraudulent" election, despite it being clear that he was voted out of office.

Allan

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