https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-backdoor-to-the-white-house-aba

#Trump’s Backdoor to the White House
#Republicans are gaming the system for a second Trump term—here’s how they plan to pull it off...
#ThomHartmann

..."The three states most likely to swing the election in the Electoral College this year are Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And, just by coincidence of course, Republicans in those state passed laws in 2020 guaranteeing election day chaos around their vote counting this November 5th.

Trump and the GOP know there’s no way he’s going to win the national popular vote; the last Republican initially elected to the White House with a majority of America’s voters was George HW Bush in 1988. Republicans just aren’t that popular with the American people.

Poppy Bush’s son George lost in 2000 by a half-million votes, but got five Republicans on the Supreme Court (including two appointed by Daddy) to block the recount in Florida that would have shown that Al Gore won the state and thus that year’s election.

Like Bush, Trump lost the election in 2016 by three million votes. But in five swing states — focused on by Vladimir Putin and Jill Stein — he was able to eke out a tiny Electoral College win. And then everybody forgot he had lost by 3 million votes. Tip your hat to our media.

This year, Republicans are again counting on the Electoral College (and Jill Stein, Putin, and Elon Musk) as their first line of defense, focusing billions of dollars on a handful of swing states with ads that range from deceptive to outright lies. It’s all backed up by a massive Russian effort on social media.

If it looks like that’s going to fail, however, their primary Plan B is to replicate their 2000 strategy of messing with the vote at the local level, and using the chaos from that to get the election in front of their Republican friends in the Supreme Court. To that end, they’re preparing a variety of lawsuits (check out Marc Elias’ site, Democracy Docket) in swing states.
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Republicans in those three states — when they controlled them in 2020 — passed sweeping election laws preventing any mail-in ballots from being counted until Election Day, guaranteeing that election workers would be overwhelmed and the results will be delayed.

Democrats took over Michigan and in 2023 amended the law so ballots can be processed before Election Day, thwarting their plans there. But Democrats don’t and haven’t taken back the legislatures of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, so the GOP’s laws stand: Mail-in ballots can’t be counted until election day in those states.
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Republican leaders and the billionaires who own them know that if they lose this election in a blowout, it might be years, or (like in the 1930-1980 era, decades) before they can again climb to power, particularly if the Harris administration is successful in rebuilding the American middle class that’s been gutted so badly by Reaganomics."...