BTRTN: Do All You Can Now... Because Come Election Day, Things Will Really Get Ugly
Born To Run The Numbers asks: If the 2024 election is indeed as impossibly close as current polling indicates, what might Election Day and beyond actually look like? Read how Trump could try to push the decision to the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, or simply into a wildly combustible state of chaos and doubt in “BTRTN: Do All You Can Now… Because Come Election Day, Things Will Really Get Ugly.”
https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2024/10/26/btrtn-do-all-you-can-now-because-come-election-day-things-will-really-get-ugly/
Excerpts: "Today — for all of the work you’ve done, dollars you’ve donated, and postcards you’ve written — lefties need to take a deep breath and contemplate what is really going to happen on November 5… indeed, what is already happening, and what will likely drag on for weeks following. We have just days to kick it all into yet another, higher, more urgent gear. Welcome to the sequel: 'Election Chaos 2024, The Even Bigger Lie...'
"When seven swing states are all within the margin of error, the range of plausible outcomes is staggering. Donald Trump could run the table, win all seven and come away with a modern landslide and an undeniable mandate. Worse still, he could control the House and the Senate, and take a wrecking ball to American democracy. Then again, it is equally possible that Kamala Harris runs the table, delivers a crushing rejection of MAGA politics, and leaves a ruined Republican Party in need of a post-Trump savior. But far more likely: razor thin elections in a number of swing states cannot be called a full 24 hours after polls close. America braces for uncertainty… and the campaigns swing into overtime..."
"It is all too easy to envision 2024 as “Florida 2000 Redux..."
"What does it mean for all of us? It may be frustrating to hear, but our best and perhaps only defense is to make sure that Kamala Harris wins — and wins by enough of a margin in enough swing states to eliminate the possibility that the Republicans could elevate a case to the Supreme Court..."