Could This Election Capsize America?

Edward Luce: “I recently participated in a four-hour ‘war games-style’ scenario helping to play the role of the media. Others included senior US political operatives, constitutional lawyers and scholars — who variously played the roles of the Trump and Biden campaigns, the parties, the governors and the courts. The Chatham House rule prevents me from specifying the organiser or its participants. But take it from me that it was a credible and disturbingly plausible exercise.”

“It started on the night of November 3 with the premise that Trump narrowly wins the electoral college on a historically low turnout in which the vote has clearly been suppressed in many states. Biden won 52 percent of the popular vote, Trump 47 percent. By the end of the game — in mid-January 2021 — the US system was at breaking point.”