Here we go…
nytimes.com/live/2020/08/16 … e=Homepage
[b]'With Joe Biden leading in many public polls, and Democrats getting ready to kick off their national convention on Monday, President Trump’s drive to create confusion and undermine confidence in the election is accelerating, as he attacks mail-in voting and praises his postmaster general despite criticism over mail service and an investigation opened by the Postal Service’s inspector general.
'In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, defended the president’s opposition to universal mail-in ballots, which Mr. Trump has called “the mail-in scam,” making charges without evidence that efforts by states to help people vote by mail in the pandemic would lead to widespread voter fraud — a claim that even some Republicans dispute. Mr. Trump has said that higher voter participation would hurt Republican candidates.
When CNN host Jake Tapper pushed back, saying, “there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud,” Mr. Meadows said, “there’s no evidence that there’s not, either.”'[/b]
Could the stakes possibly be higher? And imagine if the Democrats had managed to gain control of the Senate in 2018…
Principles and political ideals aside, it’s all about who has the actual power to create, sustain and then enforce one outcome rather than another. And, who knows, this may once again all come down to a vote in the Supreme Court.
And while all politicians, liberal and conservative, choreograph elections into staged productions, with Trump, nothing is off the table. Indeed, when it comes to bringing his own set of “facts” to the issues and doubling down on the lies, he is in a class all his own.
If I do say so myself.