NYT: The Trump campaign again tries to falsely paint votes counted after Nov. 3 as illegitimate

[My Pet Orangutan]

For weeks, President Trump and his allies have been laying groundwork to challenge the results of the election if he loses. Now, they have settled on a clearly ahistoric closing argument: that ballots should not be counted past election night.

Mr. Trump said recently that votes should be “counted, tabulated, finished by the evening of Nov. 3,” which is not possible and never has been. No state ever reports final results on election night, and no state is legally expected to.

On Sunday, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, made a remarkably blunt version of the same argument.

“If you speak with many smart Democrats, they believe that President Trump will be ahead on election night, probably getting 280 electoral, somewhere in that range,” Mr. Miller said on ABC. “And then they’re going to try to steal it back after the election.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/01/us/trump-biden-election/the-trump-campaign-again-tries-to-falsely-paint-votes-counted-after-nov-3-as-illegitimate

[JDC]

1. If he is clearly behind on Nov 3, watch this turd scream for more time

To count every ballot.

He will change his position on a dime. And all of his toadies will shift right along w him.