‘Nightmare scenario’: Conservative paints frightening portrait of Trump and Barr stealing the election

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With Donald Trump doing everything he can to disrupt mail-in voting before the November 3rd election day, conservative Matt Lewis suggested the country could be faced with a “nightmare scenario” where the media calls the election for the sitting president before all the ballots are tallied, setting the stage for the president to refuse to step aside.

In his column for the Daily Beast, Lewis noted that the president’s attacks on mail-in votes could backfire by discouraging older voters who might support him from participating and that Biden will likely be the recipient of the majority of those votes.

And that could be the problem that sets in motion a power struggle based upon the speed each state employs to count them — and if Attorney General Bill Barr steps in and lends the president a hand. Continue reading.