Tanya Mosley

And we're just talking about a handful of seats.

So there's a lot at stake for both sides.

This week, anecdotally, we've seen reporting of lines wrapped around the corner for this special election.

People seem to come out to vote.

We were also forewarned that the Justice Department would be sending election monitors to a handful of polling places in California and New Jersey.

And there was reporting that some folks saw those monitors.

Have you heard word of what happened with those monitors?

And also, can you kind of talk about why—

Particularly having monitors come to this type of election cycle is so unusual.

Your piece actually starts off with this made-up but very specific scenario set a year from now on Election Day in Maricopa County in Arizona.

In this made-up scenario, you say ICE agents are at polling places, Marines have seized voting machines, and the invocation of martial law has happened.

How realistic is this scenario, and why did you choose particularly Maricopa County as a place for it?

Talk to us about the realities for election officials all the way down to poll workers.

I mean, they've had a hard time the last few elections.

You tell stories about them getting death threats, having to get restraining orders.

You actually spoke with a former Maricopa County recorder, and they told you that standing up to Trump was incredibly lonely and that very few people will have your back, especially if you're Republican.

That particular recorder, Stephen Richer, he lost his primary to a MAGA candidate recently.

What does that tell us about the incentive structure for Republicans who might want to defend election integrity?

Thinking about Trump's power over the media, you, in your Maricopa scenario, where you project what could happen next year during the midterms, you describe how conservative outlets would likely be running wall-to-wall coverage, alleging fraud, offering tales of immigrants being bused to voting locations.

And this part of that scenario is not speculation because we actually saw versions of that in 2020.