Trump Plots to Declare 2024 'Rigged' -- Using GOP Efforts to Slow the Vote Count

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-election-rigged-slow-vote-count-2024-1235133890/

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WITH JUST WEEKS left in the 2024 presidential contest, Donald Trump already has plans in place to aggressively challenge the election results if he fails to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. According to four conservative attorneys and other sources who’ve spoken to the former president on this matter, Trump intends to declare — as soon as on Election Night — that the race is being “rigged” or “stolen” from him, by pointing to slow vote-counts of mail-in ballots in crucial battleground states as his evidence for supposed Democratic shenanigans afoot.

“He has mentioned many times that this is what we have to watch out for on Election Day, because that’s where [the steal is] going to happen,” one of the Trump-aligned lawyers tells Rolling Stone. Trump, in these private conversations with close allies and advisers in recent months, has stressed that “you gotta call them out very early in the process, like that night, otherwise they can get away with it and cover their tracks,” this source adds.

But the reason that slow counts are expected in key states is precisely because Trump and his elite Republican allies in those states want it that way. As a result, Americans can expect a replay of what happened in 2020, when Trump lost.

During the 2020 contest, laws in several states prohibited election officials from processing or counting mail-in ballots until Election Day. With Republicans more likely to vote in person, Election Night 2020 kicked off with what became known as the “red mirage” — a false vision of a Trump victory based on in-person returns. Then came the mail-in ballots, overwhelmingly filled out by Democratic voters seeking to avoid exposing themselves at polling locations to a pandemic many Republicans simply didn’t believe was real.

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[Think. Again.]

1. Yep, that's ONE of the tactics they'll be trying.

[DSandra]

2. Trump did this last time. Incredibly cynical and quite frankly idiocracy level of appeals to stupidity

Basing an entire idea of "they are stealing the election" based on mail in votes being counted late is almost peak stupidity.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. That is becoming more and more obvious