If Trump prematurely declares victory and tries to halt the count of lawful ballots, networks should treat it as a monstrous crime in progress. They should place heavy emphasis on the numbers of *uncounted* ballots, not just precincts reporting. New piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
Opinion | Trump just revealed his plot to steal the election. Here’s a way to stop him.

How the media can help us avoid a post-election crisis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
A few things we can do:

* Heavily emphasize numbers of uncounted ballots remaining

* Stop treating Trump's schemes as mere campaign tactics

* Stop casting pro-voting rights rulings as wins for Dems

* Don't treat his declaration of victory as news

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
If Biden wins by a big enough margin, Trump's corrupt schemes will be moot.

If so, certain commentators will claim that this shows Trump never represented the threat to democracy that the hysterics claimed.

But that gets the story entirely backwards:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
If Biden wins by a big enough margin, Trump's corrupt schemes will be moot.If so, certain commentators will claim that this shows Trump never represented the threat to democracy that the hysterics claimed.But that gets the story entirely backwards: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
If Biden wins by a big enough margin, Trump's corrupt schemes will be moot.If so, certain commentators will claim that this shows Trump never represented the threat to democracy that the hysterics claimed.But that gets the story entirely backwards: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
It's great to see such a big mobilization in response to Trump. But there's still an overly casual acceptance of the idea that a big win is needed to surmount his cheating, as if this is unremarkable. That itself has degraded democratic expectations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/trump-just-revealed-his-plot-steal-election-heres-way-stop-him/
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