Trump and allies plant seeds for 'chaos and discord' if he loses, experts warn

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "If it's a fair and legal and good election - absolutely," Trump said after being asked three times if he would accept the results.
57% : "The regime couldn't beat Trump in a primary," according to an online promo for Kirk's show that featured Will Scharf, a Trump legal team member "So, to win in 2024, they're banking more and more on lawfare to save them".To boost Trump's election prospects, Turning Point Action, the political arm of Turning Point USA, announced plans in early 2024 to spend tens of millions of dollars to get out the vote for Trump in key swing states including Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin with a "Chase the Vote" program, which the group claims is being mounted by hundreds of paid staffers in those states.
51% : Likewise, TP Action has expanded its role in trying to appeal to Christian nationalist voters which Kirk has made a priority to help Trump.
36% : Further, as in the 2020 and 2016 elections, Trump has waffled about committing in advance to accept the results of this year's elections as he did in his June debate with president Joe Biden.
31% : TP Action in July hosted a "Believers Summit" in Florida that Trump spoke at where he raised more concerns about his fealty to election integrity by urging in enigmatic terms: "Christians, get out and vote, Just this time ...
30% : Trump and his Maga allies have spent months decrying "election interference" and "lawfare" to sully federal and state charges he faces over his multiple and aggressive efforts to block Joe Biden from taking office on 6 January 2021, a tactic that aims both to rally his backers and undercuts the rule of law, experts say.
30% : "A lot of false claims are masquerading as efforts to change policy to improve election integrity when in actuality they're just designed to sow distrust in our system if Trump loses," said David Becker who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research.
28% : Kirk raised the specter of voting fraud at a June rally that Trump attended at the Dream City church in Phoenix where Kirk proclaimed that "we are going to make November too big to rig and we are going to overwhelm the ballot boxes".
27% : I'd be surprised if Trump doesn't try to foment insurrection if he loses the election.
27% : At the rally, Trump also vowed to make the election "too big to rig".
26% : Meanwhile Kirk's group has hosted a few large events for Trump to rally more backing for him that have included bogus claims that mimic earlier ones of 2020 voting fraud.
24% : "This is all designed to manufacture claims that if Trump loses, the election was stolen and to sow discord, chaos and potential violence.
19% : But then Trump repeated a false claim that US elections are filled with fraud to justify his sprawling efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat.
17% : John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa Arizona who spoke at the Democratic national convention in August in support of Vice-President Kamala Harris's campaign for the presidency, said that former president Trump and his allies "will throw everything at the wall and see what sticks", if Trump loses.
17% : Turning Point USA, for instance, has touted a multi-million dollar drive to get out more votes for Trump in key swing states, while holding a few big rallies for Trump where bogus claims are still being made that the 2020 election was rigged, and new fears are being raised about potential fraud this year.
15% : The dual drives by Trump and allies like Turning Point USA to mobilize Trump supporters to vote, and to sow doubts about the electoral system started months ago but seem to have picked up steam since Biden dropped his re-election bid and Harris became the Democratic nominee.
13% : "Trump continues to encourage his supporters like Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA to question the integrity of our elections," ex-Republican congressman Dave Trott of Michigan told the Guardian "He has no evidence or basis for claiming fraud and is only perpetuating these lies so he has a plan B to disrupt democracy in the event he loses.
8% : Election experts and Republican veterans warn that such efforts by Trump and his Maga allies are harbingers for claiming the election is rigged if Trump loses.
8% : Given Trump's unending false claims about 2020 election fraud, ex-Republican congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania told the Guardian that if Trump loses "I expect he will do the same thing in 2024.
7% : Republican veterans say the actions and rhetoric of Trump and his Maga allies are aimed at fomenting doubts again about the safety of the election system which they will exploit if Trump loses in November.
4% : Spread of conspiracy theories seeks to foment early election doubts in case Trump loses, some Republicans sayDonald Trump and election denialist allies at Turning Point USA, True the Vote and other Maga stalwarts are spreading conspiracy theories about election fraud in order to lay the groundwork for charging the election was rigged if Trump loses, warn election experts and some veteran Republicans.
1% : "On another election front, Trump has also attacked Vice-President Kamala Harris baselessly for spearheading a "vicious, violent overthrow" of Biden to replace him as the party's nominee, and insinuated that Harris and Biden intentionally failed to provide proper security for his rallies that spurred the assassination attempt against Trump.

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