Harris team and some Trump allies anticipate he will declare a premature election win

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : In 2020, Trump quickly proclaimed victory on election night, even though he ultimately ended up losing to Joe Biden.
66% : "Of course," Harris told NBC News in an interview Tuesday when asked if her campaign is preparing to deal with Trump declaring an early victory.
61% : He did not specify whether he was urging Trump to call an early win for himself this year.
53% : An attorney who worked for Trump in both 2016 and 2020 said that a key indicator will be the types of lawyers he has around him in the final days of the campaign and on election night and beyond.
52% : "Others do think that Trump has more to consider and different voices in his ear than 2020, and that multiple factors will be considered.
51% : Vice President Kamala Harris told NBC News that her team is preparing for the possibility that Trump will declare himself the winner, even if the results are not yet settled.
51% : Beyond the fact that Trump has employed a similar strategy in the past, the likelihood of a "red mirage" play is exacerbated by the fact that key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia don't start counting mail ballots until Election Day.
41% : Harris aides told NBC News that they do not just anticipate Trump will claim victory on election night even if the outcome remains in question -- or legally challenge the results if he loses -- but they are also actively planning for that scenario.
37% : Harris and other Democrats have been ringing alarm bells about the possibility that Trump could declare a premature election win, but even Republican supporters of the former president fully expect his campaign to consider the move.
36% : Seven Harris aides -- and the vice president herself -- said they are making preparations if Trump does indeed prematurely say he won or if he legally challenges the results if he loses.
35% : So who is going to spin him up this time?"The person said that top campaign advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita are not going to do that, and there is a sense among Republican supporters that his team of close advisers will attempt to stifle any attempt to allow Trump to claim victory if it is not clear he won.
33% : In documentary footage of election night in 2020, Stone is caught on tape advising Trump to declare victory even if the results are in doubt.
29% : There is no anticipation, even from her own team, that Harris will talk on the campaign trail about the fact that the courts might ultimately end up deciding the election because they don't want to depress voters with the idea that their votes could ultimately get thrown out by a judge sympathetic to Trump.
27% : "The person underscored that Harris is a trained attorney and she's thought about Trump possibly trying to contest the election results in the courts.
26% : "She is a threat to democracy," Trump said Monday.
23% : Trump is still casting doubt on the 2020 election, and the false notion that it was stolen from him through cheating by the Democrats has been a rallying cry for his supporters throughout this campaign.
23% : Now, we won, f--- you.""When I said it in 2020, I was accused of saying that Trump should declare victory even if he 'lost,' which is not even remotely what I said," Stone told NBC News.
15% : "A second Harris aide who requested anonymity to speak about Harris' election week plans said the campaign and Democrats are looking at the 2000 election, as well as the 2020 election, and steeling themselves for what could be a legal fight with Trump.
8% : The comment did become a piece of evidence used by the House Jan. 6 committee in 2022, when trying to show that Trump wanted to claim prematurely that he had defeated Biden.

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