How The Cult Plans To Contest Result If Trump Loses

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Trump’s allies have followed a two-pronged approach: restricting voting for partisan advantage ahead of Election Day and short-circuiting the process of ratifying the winner afterward, if Mr. Trump loses. The latter strategy involves an ambitious — and legally dubious — attempt to reimagine decades of settled law dictating how results are officially certified in the weeks before the transfer of power.

The legal campaign, which has come into focus as Republicans prepare to nominate Mr. Trump at their convention next week, has been quietly playing out in courts, statehouses and county boards for months, and is concentrated in critical battlegrounds.

The effort involves a sprawling network of groups and includes some people that worked to overturn the results in 2020 — a campaign that led to federal and state criminal charges against Mr. Trump and several of his associates.

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The coup never stopped. The GOP is an extremist, authoritarian force.

Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeat https://t.co/0fkekVRhC8

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 13, 2024