"First he lit into Michigan and Nevada, threatening to withhold federal funding because of his assertion that both states were preparing to commit voter fraud through mail-in ballot applications. Then President Donald Trump followed up Sunday with two more broadly-worded warnings that November would be “the greatest Rigged Election in history.”
“The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple!” the president claimed."
"Trump’s rhetoric isn’t exactly new for him. As a primary candidate, he attributed his Iowa defeat to fraud committed by Sen. Ted Cruz. Even after his general election victory, Trump made unsubstantiated claims of “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California” — three states that he failed to carry — and told congressional leaders that millions of illegal votes were the reason he lost the popular vote."
"In one of his first acts as president, Trump created an 11-member commission to study alleged voter fraud. Two years later, amid the GOP’s 2018 wipe-out, he was lodging complaints about “electoral corruption” in Arizona and “missing or forged” ballots in Florida."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...k-fears-274477
So is Trump "planting the seeds for delegitimizing the election if he loses? Setting the stage now by echoing that an election six months away is already rigged?"
As we have seen, it has always been part of the playbook, he even repeated the same claims prior to the 2016 election when he thought the Hollywood Access tape was going to be his downfall. So is this again an orchestrated move by Trump now to build support incase he goes down in November?
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