Donald Trump and his team haven’t been subtle about their plans for this evening and the days that follow. “[W]e’re going to go in night of, as soon as that election is over, we’re going in with our lawyers,” the president assured his followers over the weekend.
The Republican incumbent didn’t say specifically what he expects his lawyers to do, but in context, the president seemed to signal his intention to derail the vote-counting process in key states. Indeed, the president has repeatedly argued in recent days that all vote counting should end on Election Day — something that’s never happened in the history of the United States.
Is the Republican Party fully on board with an autocratic re-election strategy predicated in disenfranchising as many Americans as possible? Politico reported this morning that GOP officials are “publicly silent,” but “privately disgusted” by Trump’s election threats.
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