This was Trump and the Republicans game plan all along

[Proud liberal 80]

Create a red mirage by not allowing absentee votes to be counted early in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin (opposite of Florida and a lot of states).. and the when they are counted, yell fraud and cheating

[marybourg]

1. Yes, he telegraphed that over and over.

[TwilightZone]

2. I think that's just the sideshow.

I think Trump thought he could eek out a win in some combination of MI, WI, NV, AZ, and/or PA and win the EC.

I think the rest was mostly just for show and to motivate the rubes. There was (and remains) little chance that the SC was going to override state laws, Amy or no Amy.

[DonaldsRump]

3. But Arizona was their undoing

And Joe is STILL winning in Popular and EV.

Absolutely a red mirage. I finally figured that out late last night and went to bed. I am happy with what I see in the morning!

[dalton99a]

4. Yep.

[LisaL]

5. Yep.

He clearly said it was going to be his strategy-to declare himself a winner on the election night and stop counting the votes. He doesn't always lie, I guess.

[Jarqui]

6. Email to my sister this morning

"Here's the feeling that I woke up with: Trump cheated.
He's cheated on his SATs,
cheated by defaulting on his loans or falsifying info to get them,
cheated on insurance,
cheated students at Trump U,
cheated on his charity efforts,
cheated on his wives,
cheated his niece and nephew out of their inheritance,
cheated on his taxes,
cheated vendors in business,
cheated employees out of their pay,
cheated others by bankruptcy,
cheated by using undocumented workers
and cheated in the 2016 election with the Russians.
He attempted to cheat in Ukraine and got caught.
He attempted to cheat with Hunter Biden's laptop and got caught.

As President, he's lied or misled more than 20,000 times and did all kinds of other sinister, unethical and/or dishonest stuff.

Why should Trump's behavior in the 2020 election be any different?

If he's going to legally challenge it, scrutinize what he's done.
You know going into it that he's done something bad. He doesn't know any other way to behave.

Are all the pollsters out to lunch? I have my doubts.