I see a lot of people tweeting things like “It doesn’t matter what he declares; we count all the votes!” but here’s the thing: it does matter what he says, and it matters whether news outlets repeat him. https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1322981523608449024

Also, if you were alive in 2000, you know just how much a well-coordinated media campaign can be used to stop vote counts.

Whether it matters or not will come down to how journalists cover what he says. It is very important that they not give him the headlines he’s hoping for.

I wrote about how he would do this in the campaign’s final days. It’s the obvious conclusion anyone in media should be able to see coming. https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/trumps-closing-pitch-based-avalanche-lies-and-hes-hoping-media-help-spread-them

Trump is going to claim victory even if it’s obvious he’s losing. This is something we all see coming.

Journalists, pundits, etc.: Are you going to do the right thing, or are you going to be an active participate in an effort to steal the election?

The more confusion that exists about the election, the more people come to believe that it’s been stolen from them (there’s one side that HAS been trying to steal it through the courts and voter suppression, and it’s sure not the Dems), the more likely there will be chaos.

That’s something CNN needs to consider before trotting Rick Santorum out there for analysis, for example.