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"We are sadly ready if he does and, if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people ... we are prepared to respond," Harris said in an interview with ABC on Wednesday.
She gave no details of those preparations, but six Democratic Party and Harris campaign officials said the initial fight against any early Trump victory claim would take place in the court of public opinion. They plan to flood social media and television airwaves with demands that all votes be counted before victories are declared.
"As soon as he (Trump) falsely declares victory, we're ready to get up on TV and provide the truth and tap a broad network of people who can use their influence to push back," a top official with the Democratic National Committee said in an interview.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-have-plan-if-trump-prematurely-declares-election-victory-2024-11-01/
Otto_Harper
(776 posts)AZ8theist
(6,579 posts)dalton99a
(85,020 posts)hibbing
(10,403 posts)WestMichRad
(1,915 posts)Hes already declared himself the winner: The only was I can lose is if there is fraud.
KS Toronado
(19,760 posts)always claim to be the winner, he'll be saying we cheated him again on election night.
In addition to ads to remain calm until all votes are counted, how about one with Joseph Goebbels on one
side of the screen telling people if they lie often enough people will believe it as truth, and little donnie
on the other half crying about a stolen election. SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN TO TELL THE TRUTH.
2naSalit
(93,779 posts)Up to him to make that call.
Get real, folks.
Libloom
(38 posts)Until he prematurely declares. They should start on election day or really even now would be good.
We know he's going to do it, but there are likely many people who don'tand those are the ones who need to be aware, so they can be less susceptible to his attempts to manipulate their opinions and emotions.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,628 posts)Hekate
(95,456 posts)wnylib
(24,905 posts)Randomthought
(897 posts)I'm hoping Harris wins so big that all major networks declare her the winner right after the polls close on the west coast
Jmb 4 Harris-Walz
(1,049 posts)to get us ahead of the other side. Were the honest ones, remember. 🤓
Edits: system doesnt like the word N A I V E; cant figure it out!!! Keeps changing it to NAVE. 😂
DiverDave
(5,035 posts)He wants to have a rabid response to losing.
I'm sure he will lose. He knows it too.
But, he really thinks (IMO) that he can be enshrined if people go crazy and hurt people.
He doesn't care if people die.
The government is prepared.
I do hope nobody is hurt.
DownriverDem
(6,698 posts)an army of lawyers on stand by to stop MAGAs too. trump seems focused on PA. I'm not sure why. PA, WI & MI have Dem governors focused on the election too. The fact that Biden is in the White House will help too. What a shame that it's come to this.
RobertDevereaux
(1,950 posts)Washington State governor Jay Inslee has activated the states National Guard so it will be fully prepared to respond to any
civil unrest before or after the election.
The Department of Justice today announced it would monitor the polls in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states to make sure they comply with federal voting rights laws. Although the federal government has monitored certain polls since 1965, officials in the states of Florida, Missouri, and Texas promptly announced they would not permit Department of Justice officials inside polling stations."
Dem4life1970
(583 posts)...about a rigged election and election theft ever since (Soon to be Ex-) Senator Ted Cruz whooped his a$$ in Iowa in the 2016 GQP primary.
vanlassie
(5,901 posts)It was from Marc Elias. I sent $50. If he asked for $500 I would have considered it.
For anyone else, Im tapped out.
verargert
(141 posts)Tesha
(20,980 posts)Do it by state and get election officials to join if possible
D23MIURG23
(3,102 posts)Jmb 4 Harris-Walz
(1,049 posts)winner is needs to go back to school or watch more news because its frankly idiotic to think all those mail in ballots could possibly be opened, verified, and scanned prior to the next or longer day.
4lbs
(7,395 posts)which he tried to block, presumably because it was too truthful, he gleaned the following from Roy Cohn:
1.) Never say you are sorry. That's admitting defeat. You are weak if you do that.
2.) Always declare victory. Even if you lose. Make them PROVE you lost.
3.) Flood the courts with lawsuit after lawsuit. Make the government have to act on each one. Even if you "lose", you still "win" because you made the government spend its precious time and money on it.
4.) Why pay when you can get "shit" for free?
Sound familiar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
BTW, according to the movie, Roy Cohn was a closeted self-hating Jewish Homosexual. His biggest claim to fame was putting away and helping to execute the Rosenbergs as a husband-wife spy couple and working for Senator Joe McCarthy. He also was very anti-gay during the 1970s with his views and positions. Even when the AIDs crisis (or GRiD as it was called back then) hit full force in the 1980s, both Cohn and Dumpy refused to call it that. Instead they referred to it as "gay cancer".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Hekate
(95,456 posts)bucolic_frolic
(47,734 posts)Not so in 2016, not so for GWB in 2000.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,355 posts)If it was a football game he would steal the coin and claim he won the toss but that means he won the game.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,053 posts)before Rs get themselves & others all worked up & control the narrative.
Dems need to manage expectations, reminding/explaining the simple, and obvious logistics of counting millions of votes: It takes time to count each one. The more votes cast, the more time it takes to count them all.
And no one loses their right to have their vote counted just because a lot of other people's votes were counted first.
I mean, duh. But so many people just dont think logically. Trump Cult members can't be made to, but most Americans can understand such a simple idea if they hear it before they start believing the RW BS.