The GOP plotted to overturn the 2020 election before it was even over [View all]

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It’s been clear for a long time that GOP efforts to overturn the 2020 election had no regard for actual evidence of supposedly widespread fraud (of which there still isn’t any) and were more about doing whatever it took to hold on to power.

What we’ve learned in recent days has driven that home about as well as anything — including the latest disclosure about Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s text messages.

As the calendar turned to Nov. 4, 2020 — the morning after Election Day — the results of the presidential race were still up in the air. The New York Times analyzed the incomplete results that morning with a headline that stated, “Can Biden Still Win? Yes.” We here at The Washington Post wrote that it remained “a tight race to 270 electoral votes,” with plenty of doubt about the outcome.

It wouldn’t be until late that day that Michigan and Wisconsin would be called for Joe Biden, at which point it looked like he had an edge — though the outcome would still be in doubt for three more days.

But even as all this was playing out on Nov. 4, momentum was building behind a drastic step. As Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) detailed Tuesday night, a Republican member of Congress texted then-White House chief of staff Meadows that same day with an idea for an “AGRESSIVE [sic] STRATEGY.”

“Why can t [sic] the states of GA NC PENN and other R[epublican] controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the [Supreme Court],” wrote the lawmaker, who was not identified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/15/gop-plotted-overturn-2020-election-before-it-was-even-over/