A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election.
It wasn’t pretty
, grappling with questions that seem less far-fetched by the day:
What if President Trump refuses to concede a loss, as he publicly hinted recently he might do?
How far could he go to preserve his power?
And what if Democrats refuse to give in?
“All of our scenarios ended in both street-level violence and political impasse,”
“The law is essentially ...
it’s almost helpless against
a president who’s willing to ignore it.”
the group envisioned a dark 11 weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day, one in which Trump and his Republican allies used every apparatus of government —
the Postal Service, state lawmakers, the Justice Department, federal agents, and the military —
to hold onto power, and
Democrats took to the courts and the streets to try to stop it.
“He doesn’t have to win the election,”
“He just has to create a plausible narrative that he didn’t lose.”
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