Honestly, Trump is so fucking ready to contest the election he might do it if he wins. If he does win the vote I'd wager money on him accidentally falling back on "this election was stolen" rhetoric at his acceptance speech anyways.
He did it when he won in 2016. When people pointed out that Hillary won the popular vote, he complained it was only because of the "illegals" voting.
Him winning would shift the rhetoric into removing the election process since it was so questionable. I doubt the goal of replacing everyone with those loyal to the President will stop in the administration. If nothing else, more quid pro quo. He's shown that with the latest disasters, suggesting that he'd restrict help from those not supporting him.
Considering the ineptitude of his campaign staff they might send out the wrong press release and then lean into it.
He will contest it no matter how badly he loses.
Frankly, I hope Biden and Schiff are deliberately downplaying the problem to assuage the public and encourage voting, because if they genuinely believe what they say then they don't fully grasp the magnitude of MAGA's attack on the elections system.
In reality, the best you could optimistically say is that the voting itself will be mostly free and fair, aside from all the voter suppression, voter intimidation, and tactics like allocating too few voting booths to increase wait times and then criminalizing handing out water to people waiting in line. The rest of the election process -- the counting and certification of the votes -- is unlikely to be free and fair at all in places like Georgia and Arizona, and that's even before we get into all of Trump's bullshit lawsuits challenging the results and trying to get a SCOTUS coronation.
No shit?
As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.
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