Very interesting read as the Election gets near.
A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn’t pretty.
A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn’t pretty.
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Wow, that's a sobering read, even if it is based around a role-play game – hey, life and fiction, the former does too often mirror the latter!?
A few bits caught my attention, more than others…
“He doesn’t have to win the election,” said Nils Gilman, a historian who leads research at a think tank called the Berggruen Institute and was an organizer of the exercise. “He just has to create a plausible narrative that he didn’t lose.”
“How well is our constitutional legal system designed to deal with an incumbent president who insists that he won an election but for the presence of fraud?” said Lawrence Douglas, a professor at Amherst College who has written a book on what would happen if Trump took such a stand. “And I think the rather unfortunate answer is our system is not well designed at all to deal with that problem,” said Douglas, who was not involved in the game.
“The Constitution really has been a workable document in many respects because we have had people who more or less adhered to a code of conduct,” said retired Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson, a Republican and former chief of staff to Colin Powell who participated in games as an observer. “That seems to no longer to be the case. That changes everything.”
"Donald Trump has suggested November's presidential election be postponed, saying increased postal voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53597975