“We truly are teetering on the brink of the collapse of democracy—and Mike Pence made that very clear on Wednesday night,” mollyjongfast writes about the V.P. debate.
, saying, "This president is going to try to steal this election.” But the Democratic nominee told host Trevor Noah that he was convinced that if Trump loses the Electoral College and yet refuses leave office, military leaders “will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.”
Added Gellman: “The worst case, however, is not that Trump rejects the election outcome. The worst case is that he uses his power to prevent a decisive outcome against him. If Trump sheds all restraint, and if his Republican allies play the parts he assigns them, he could obstruct the emergence of a legally unambiguous victory for Biden in the Electoral College and then in Congress. He could prevent the formation of consensus about whether there is any outcome at all.
In an online interview about the book, Douglas discussed the nightmare scenario of Trump simply refusing to leave office. “ I cannot imagine Trump conceding defeat—it’s not in his DNA to do so,” Douglas. "If he loses decisively—and by that, I mean not only in the electoral college vote but also in the popular vote of the swing states—he will have no choice but to submit to defeat.”
Explained Douglas: “It’s not hard to imagine how this could play out: Trump could enjoy a slim lead in the key swing states on November 3—a lead that vanishes once the mail-ins start getting counted in the days following November 3. And yet all the while Trump is pushing his insistence that only election day results should count; indeed, he brazenly declares that his disappearing lead simply proves his claim of mail-in fraud.
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