With less than two weeks left until Election Day, Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to challenge Vice President Kamala Harris if he falls short.
Wednesday, NBC News reported Trump’s allies say they expect him to quickly declare victory on election night, regardless of whether the election is called or not. One Trump ally said Trump would declare victory again if early voting results were even more skewed toward Republicans, but as in 2020, no mail-in ballots would be included. There is a high possibility that it will.
“There’s no one who doesn’t think that’s part of the conversation,” a Trump donor from North Carolina told NBC News. “We’ve seen him do it before, and I think his campaign would probably wisely try to do it again if he were up on election night.”
Just like in 2020, Trump and his allies are spreading the infection. same baseless lie Lies about voting machines stealing votes from President Trump hurt Fox News $787 million in a defamation lawsuit.
“We have received reports from Whitfield County, Georgia, that Dominion machines are flipping votes,” said far-right Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. I wrote Posted by X, no evidence to support her claim. “This is exactly the type of fraud we witnessed in 2020.”
Meanwhile, Republicans in battleground states Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin lawsuit To prevent military votes cast overseas from being counted.
In September, President Trump hinted at why Republicans were targeting these votes. write On his Truth Social platform, he says, “Democrats talk about how hard they’re working to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas. They’re actually preparing to cheat. is!”
House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi denounced Republican efforts to block the counting of overseas military votes.
“MAGA Republicans are violating military voting rights overseas because they know Kamala Harris is better suited than name to be our nation’s commander in chief,” Pelosi said. I wrote “Democrats want every American vote to be counted, including the votes of our brave military members,” he wrote in a post on X. Pelosi then said: From voting to overseas.
A Michigan judge has already threw One of the lawsuits, filed by the Michigan Republican Party, is an “eleventh-hour attempt to disenfranchise” voters.
This is not the only pre-election lawsuit filed by Republicans to facilitate Trump’s victory.
In the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, received a contrary judgment The lawsuit sought to prevent the Republican National Committee from allowing people who were disqualified from voting by mail due to clerical errors to amend their ballots so they could be counted.
“We’ve known for some time that Donald Trump doesn’t try things on the merits, but rather uses the legal system to get his point across,” Democratic campaign lawyer Marc Elias said in an interview on MSNBC. he said.
“In the context of the election, this word is used by him and his supporters to spread a false narrative, the Big Lie, as an enabling structure to deny the reality that he lost in 2020 and is almost certain to lose.” “We know that they took advantage of this,” Elias continued, “and they will lose the popular vote and probably lose the 2024 election.” “But what we must be clear about is that these lawsuits have not been successful.”
Harris said she also has a plan for Trump’s antics.
“This is a man named Donald Trump, who tried to undo a free and fair election, who still defies the will of the people, and who incited a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. , 140 law enforcement officers were attacked,” Harris said. NBC News spoke about why she believes President Trump is trying to cause chaos on election night.
