Trump Activates Plan to Contest the Election

Politico: “This was always Donald Trump’s plan. He said it in the spring. He said it over the summer. And he hinted at it again in the early hours of Wednesday: Votes shouldn’t be counted after Election Day.”

“It didn’t matter that his assertion wasn’t — and isn’t — true. Trump portrays himself as a fighter and was always going to contest a close presidential election. After all, he spent months trying to link mail-in voting to fraud, with scant evidence — a push that seemed to coincide with predictions that post-election tallying of remote ballots could sway the vote to Joe Biden in the days after Nov. 3. He hired an army of lawyers to restrict the mail-in ballots that could be counted. They filed dozens of lawsuits.”

“Now Trump is going to activate his legal army. Speaking from the East Room of the White House shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, he confusingly proclaimed he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stop ‘all voting,’ because ‘we don’t want them to find any ballots at four o’clock in the morning and add them to the list.’ It was unclear how he would do that, or what legal arguments he could muster.”