As joyful and reinvigorated as many people were by the turn of events in the election season and the public opinion poll margin that the Harris – Walz ticket is developing, I have realized with despair that it only increases the likelihood of a post-election coup that will make trump’s January 6, 2021 actions look like a walk in the park.

Rumor has it at the Democrats are assembling an unprecedented legal team to fight the steal but, for all my obsessive reading about the issue, I was not seeing much that was encouraging about the ability to prevent trump’s insurrection. People without scruples always have those who respect the rule of law over a barrel. It begins not to matter who wins the popular vote, the battleground states, or crosses the electoral college threshold.

Now, the first sign that the Democrats will be proactive instead of merely reactive and paralyzed. ( Schouten & Sneed via CNN )

‘donald trump’s campaign remains jittery about the prospect of a power struggle inside the inner circle that could become a major distraction just months until the 2024 election, even if​ the jockeying for influence by top officials has ended with a truce, according to people familiar with the matter.

 

The momentary power play among the senior advisers is widely seen to be over, for now, after the 2016 campaign chief, Corey Lewandowski, distanced himself from suggestions he was returning to the fold to run the campaign and the current leadership remained in their roles. (Lewandowski was brought on the current campaign as an adviser.)…’ (Hugo Lowell via The Guardian )