Trump’s “Twisted” Strategy: Follow the Law and Win Fairly

by Jeff Childers

New York Magazine ran an unintentionally encouraging story Thursday headlined, “Trump’s Two-Prong Strategy to Ensure He Can’t Lose.” I don’t mean to quibble, but the article actually lists four prongs. The columnist meant to wail about Trump’s unfair election strategy, but it ended up as one of the most reassuring articles in weeks.

In New York Magazine’s view, the Trump Campaign is relying on four strategies to “suppress the Democrat vote.” Haha, like me, you’ll instantly recognize the four techniques NYMag complained about as being ways of stopping Democrats from cheating. Here they are:

1. Widespread purging of ineligible voters off of rolls all across the country. (NYMag whined: Republicans are removing people just for not responding to inquires fast enough.)
2. New rules in various places make mail-in ballot fraud much harder. (NYMag whined: “ridiculously strict rules” excluding votes for “trivial” slipups like late ballots and bad addresses.)
3. A tidal wave of new Republican poll watchers. (NYMag whined: “flooding” of polling places with Republicans trained to challenge ballots for “sketchy” reasons.)
4. A muscular, local, local, local push to ensure Republicans are well-represented in key counties. (NYMag whined: ”MAGA loyalists” infiltrated key election positions in county and state offices.)

I don’t know about you, but unlike New York Magazine, I find all those developments extremely reassuring and frankly, profoundly encouraging. NYMag called it “twisting the system,” but I call it long-overdue.

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