The big lie 2.0: Trump plan to subvert 2024 election more organized than ever

The effort to pre-emptively deny an election loss goes beyond rhetoric – it is backed up by a massive rightwing apparatus

There is little doubt that Donald Trump will refuse to accept a defeat in November’s US presidential election.

The former president, who is deadlocked in the polls with Kamala Harris, has spent months priming his supporters to believe the only way he could lose is through fraud. “If I lose – I’ll tell you what, it’s possible. Because they cheat. That’s the only way we’re gonna lose, because they cheat,” he said at a rally in September.

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