Election 2020

[TeacherinExile]

(07-30-2020, 08:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The AP has Trump floats election ‘delay’ amid claims of voting fraud.  CNN has it as well.

We have been sort of waiting for an attempt by Trump to extend his power.  This one is kind of flimsy.  The election laws have specific dates for the election and inauguration.  He has no evidence of the fraud.  Injunctions by the Democrats to the courts should turn any real attempts aside.

But he is feeding his base with conspiracy theory and widening that gap between realities.

But if I may play devil’s advocate for a moment...

A report just released last week by an organization called the Transition Integrity Project war-gamed out several scenarios that might occur if the 2020 presidential election is disrupted by Donald Trump. The people who participated in this speculative exercise are a diverse group of former government officials, political consultants, journalists and students.

Here is the link to David Frum’s article in The Atlantic, entitled “Where the System May Break”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ng/614842/

This article, in turn, refers to the full report of the exercise as compiled by the project:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documen...on-and.txt

Neil Howe referred to this intriguing report in his Democracy Unplugged podcast today (around the last 10-11 minutes).  And what’s interesting to note is Howe’s unqualified agreement with the prediction that the outcome of the presidential race will not be known on Election Night. Pretty easy call, I would say.  As for the rest of the scenarios...whoa boy!