Ari Berman
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If Republicans lose, he's going to say, well, we didn't have the SAVE Act, therefore the election was rigged, therefore we have to challenge the count.
in some kind of way like we challenged it in 2020.
And I believe he keeps talking about the SAVE Act for that reason, because he is creating the predicate for some kind of dramatic intervention to either challenge how people vote, how their votes are counted, or how the elections are ultimately certified.
That seems certainly plausible to me.
Trump clearly wants this bill to pass, but I think he's been told many times, including repeatedly by the leader of the Senate, John Thune, that it's not going to happen.
And so he keeps talking about it because he wants Republicans to distrust the voting system.
And if they distrust the voting system, that will then build support for more dramatic interventions in
into the electoral system.
For example, the raid in Fulton County, Georgia, where they took 700 boxes of ballots.
More of those kind of things are probably coming, and we are likely to see the full force of the federal government weaponized to try to interfere in the midterms in some way or another, and possibly to interfere in the midterms at multiple levels, whether it's
interfering in the casting of ballots or whether it's interfering in how votes are counted or interfering in how elections are certified.
Trump tried to do this in 2020.
He was ultimately unsuccessful, but it wasn't for a lack of trying.
And a lot of the Republicans who argued against it inside the administration have been pushed out and they've been replaced by people that led the effort.
to try to overturn the 2020 election.
And those are the people that are in positions of power in his administration.
Those are the people who have Trump's ear outside the administration.
And that's why these more dramatic interventions are on the table right now.
And if you're asking me, what am I worried about in the next phase of the election?
That's probably the thing that's keeping me and other experts on voting up at night is
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