How Republicans Could Help Trump Steal the Election from Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : He and I have a little secret -- we'll tell you what it is when the race is over."As Rolling Stone reported last year, a major reason Trump supported Johnson's ascension to House speaker is that Johnson is "good on elections."
61% : Sources close to Trump have said he'll claim victory -- regardless of actual results -- as soon as election night, as Rolling Stone previously reported.
51% : Many of those options end in Congress, where House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who helped lead House Republicans' efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, is perceived as a key ally in efforts to overturn the 2024 election -- and that was before Trump mentioned a "little secret," that only he and Johnson know, at his Madison Square Garden rally last week.
47% : Trump said.
46% : In fact, the months ahead may determine whether the checks and balances put in place by the nation's founders -- not to mention their hopes for a country free from the tyranny of a president with no loyalty to democratic ideals -- will stand under the test of Trump.
42% : Two right-wing figures have already suggested either disrupting or rigging the meeting of electors on Dec. 17 to favor Trump.
37% : The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee -- both fueled by the Trump-era iterations of election denialism, voter crackdowns, and a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy for elections -- have long prepared for chaotic scenarios in which the 2024 presidential contest ends up being so close in such a small number of states that Trump and the GOP would feel compelled to force a victory, whether he actually won or not.
36% : As Rolling Stone recently reported, Trump personally called GOP allies in the Keystone State to demand they block efforts from Democrats to allow mail-in ballots to be processed before Election Day.
35% : But first, the Electoral College will meet on Dec. 17 to cast their vote for either Harris or Trump -- whichever candidate, in every state but Maine and Nebraska, wins the popular vote.
34% : Last week, Ivan Raiklin -- a former Green Beret, current attorney, and self-appointed "Secretary of Retribution" for a second Trump term -- suggested that Republican voters pressure members of Pennsylvania's legislature to install electors who will vote, no matter what, for Trump.
32% : Congress tried to close some loopholes that Trump and House and Senate Republicans tried to exploit four years ago, but danger still remains.
32% : "The way I see it is that Trump and his followers are not running a classic political campaign where they're engaged in canvassing, phone-banking, get-out-the-vote efforts of voter mobilization.
30% : In a statement to The New York Times, Johnson didn't elaborate on what his "little secret" with Trump might be.
28% : Short of a landslide win by Trump, experts and elected officials across the political spectrum anticipate that next week's election results will be contested.
28% : The ECRA does not explicitly change the definition of "regularly given" and "lawfully certified," but drafting language for the 2022 law did clarify that the objections cannot be made over claims of fraud -- like those already being made by Trump and others.
26% : Raiklin and Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the new chair of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, have separately suggested legislators in North Carolina should require electors to vote for Trump regardless of the popular vote.
25% : Trump-aligned lawyers and officials refuse to admit -- even off the record -- that they are gearing up for potential situations in which Trump would want them to steal an election.
19% : Sources say Trump intends to cite the slow count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania as evidence that the election is being "rigged" or "stolen" from him.
15% : This would open up myriad scenarios for congressional Republicans to try to steal the election for Trump on Jan. 6, 2025.Governors and state legislatures could also try to rig the election for Trump by approving fake slates of electors for the Electoral College, as some states did in 2020, or by introducing rules that dictate how their state's electors must vote, as a right-wing congressman recently suggested.
13% : Donald Trump and his allies in Congress and election offices throughout the country have a variety of tools to dismantle the will of voters and install Trump as president -- Tuesday's election results be damned.
7% : On Friday, Johnson claimed the secret relates to "one of our tactics on get-out-the-vote."Asked by CNN on Friday whether he has spoken with Trump about not accepting the 2024 election results if Trump wins, Johnson said, "Of course not.

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