Election Day is less than two weeks away, but Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for an election challenge if he fails to take on Vice President Kamala Harris.
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. One Trump ally said Trump would declare victory again if early returns skewed the Republican Party more. This is likely to happen again because, like in 2020, it does not include mail-in voting.
“There’s no part of it that I don’t think is part of the conversation,” one Trump donor from North Carolina told NBC News. “We’ve seen him do that before. If he gets up on election night, I think his campaign will probably wisely try again.”
Likewise, in 2020, Trump and his associates are spreading. the same baseless lie Lies about voting machines stealing votes from Trump cost Fox News $787 million It’s a defamation suit.
“Reports from Whitfield County, Georgia, that Dominion machines are flipping votes,” said far-right Georgia state Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. wrote From X’s post no evidence To back up her claim. “This is exactly the type of fraud we’ve seen in 2020.”
Meanwhile, Republicans in battleground states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin suit To block the counting of military ballots cast overseas.
Last September, Trump hinted at why Republicans were targeting these votes. writing From his Truth social platform: “Democrats are talking about how they are working so hard to win millions of votes from Americans living abroad. In fact, they are preparing to cheat!”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Republican efforts to block foreign military votes from being counted.
“MAGA Republicans undermine foreign military voting rights because they know Kamala Harris is better suited to be our commander-in-chief than her namesake.” Pelosi wrote In a post about Pelosi has been linked to: votefromabroad.org.
already a judge in michigan thrown One of the lawsuits filed by the Michigan Republican Party was an 11th-hour attempt to disenfranchise voters.
This is not the only pre-election lawsuit filed by Republicans aimed at making it easier for Trump to win.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling against Republican National Committee lawsuit seeks to prevent people who were disqualified from voting by mail due to clerical errors from having their ballots corrected and counted.
“We’ve known for some time that Donald Trump uses the legal system to make a point rather than adjudicate on the merits,” Marc Elias, a Democratic campaign lawyer, told MSNBC.
“In the context of the election, we see that he has used this to further the Big Lie, a false narrative that serves as a licensing structure for him and his supporters to deny the reality that he lost in 2020 and that he will almost certainly lose. I know. They will lose the popular vote and probably lose the 2024 elections,” Elias continued. “But we must be clear that the lawsuit was not successful.”
Harris said she was also planning a Trump prank.
“This is a man named Donald Trump who sought to cancel a free and fair election, yet still denied the will of the people and incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol and attack 140 law enforcement officers,” Harris said. On NBC News, she explains why she believes Trump will try to cause chaos on election night.
