NEW: Constitutional experts & swing state operatives are worried that @realDonaldTrump’s “delay the election” tweet is laying groundwork to bully red state GOP legislators into ignoring a @JoeBiden win by voting to give Trump their states’ electoral votes https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-delay-election-tweet-mail-voting-2020-twitter-a9646786.html
I think it's his plan… to try to get a red state like Pennsylvania to...claim that the election failed because of fraudulent mail-in ballots, and therefore the state legislature should name its own slate [of electors]” Harvard emeritus prof @tribelaw said https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-delay-election-tweet-mail-voting-2020-twitter-a9646786.html
“We can't simply assume that the guy [ @realDonaldTrump] is as dumb as he seems… this is a setup for something else,” @tribelaw added. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-delay-election-tweet-mail-voting-2020-twitter-a9646786.html
Maryland Democrat @RepRaskin agreed that @realDonaldTrump will push GOP legislatures to overturn the popular vote: “The trick will be to create these little electoral Reichstag fires, which they can use to claim election fraud in some trumped up way.” https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-delay-election-tweet-mail-voting-2020-twitter-a9646786.html