The big lie 2.0: Trump plan to subvert 2024 election more organized than ever

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : If Trump contests the election, the lie about non-citizen voting is likely to be at the center of his efforts.
50% : "Trump and Republicans could try and bring a final challenge when Congress issues the final certification of the electoral college vote on January 6, 2025.
49% : The watchdog group Protect Democracy calls these and similar lawsuits "zombie lawsuits" and predicts that Trump and allies could try and revive them after election day to challenge the election results.
48% : In 2024, Trump has shifted his focus to something else: non-citizen voting.
47% : Judges turned away nearly every case Trump filed to try and overturn the election results - 61 in total - and experts expect that they will do so again.
46% : Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a major backer of Trump, has significantly helped boost these lie that Democrats want non-citizens to vote, posting about it at least 52 times and racking up 700m views, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
44% : Nikhel Sus, a lawyer with Crew, predicted Trump and allies would revive some of the suits they've already filed, but that they wouldn't go far.
35% : And Republican election officials in a handful of states - Alabama, Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee - have all tried to back up Trump by releasing statements claiming to have found thousands of non-citizens on the rolls.
33% : But Trump is planning to declare that the vote against him is rigged and that the slow count is evidence something is amiss, Rolling Stone reported in October.
32% : After those suits are filed, Trump could move on to trying to stop certification of the vote at the local level.
30% : The Heritage foundation, a rightwing thinktank aligned with Trump, has peddled misleading videos purporting to show non-citizen registering.
25% : He later said, more definitively, that he did not believe Trump lost four years ago.
25% : "This will be one of the primary, but among many, false claims made if Trump loses," he said in September.
24% : While there is little doubt that Trump will try and contest an election loss, experts are also nearly certain that he will not succeed.
23% : Nearly one in five Republican voters believe Trump should declare the election result invalid if he loses, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (12% of Democrats said Harris, who has committed to accepting the election results, should do the same).
22% : During the vice-presidential debate in early October, he refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election.
22% : In 2020, Trump pointed to the massive shift in mail-in voting and emergency changes in voting, driven by the pandemic, to create a narrative of fraud and claim the election was stolen.
17% : "Our elections are bad," Trump said during the 10 September debate with Kamala Harris.

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