Editorial: Trump, top Republicans plainly say they want to silence voters. Believe them.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump himself phoned into the meeting to press the case.
18% : Graham, Trump and others have made no other argument for seeking the switch.
14% : But Trump, Graham and others aren't even attempting to dress up their call for an 11th-hour revamp of Nebraska's election law as being about anything other than muzzling Omaha's voters so Trump has a better chance of beating Harris in the Electoral College.
9% : Add that to the other election-related shenanigans being pursued by Republicans around the country -- Georgia election officials moving to a potentially chaotic hand-counting system, surrogates suggesting without evidence that Pennsylvania mail-in ballots are already tainted by fraud, Trump himself continuing to falsely claim he won in 2020 and preemptively embracing conspiracy theories about the coming election -- and the overarching theme becomes clear: Trump and his most fervent backers don't view democracy as a legitimate process unless it produces the outcome they want (a Trump victory).

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