Table of Contents
Incumbent US President Donald Trump is undoubtedly on the political ropes, battling to survive to a second term. But, despite left-media triumphalism, Trump is down but far from out.
Like Democrat Al Gore in 2000, Trump is obviously planning to fight for weeks, if not months, to beat what he calls a rigged election. The battle will naturally be fought in the courts, but Trump is also going to play to his greatest political strength: the extraordinary enthusiasm of the hundreds of thousands of his supporters flocking to his rallies.
President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results, four Trump advisers told me during a conference call this afternoon.
After being obviously blindsided by Joe Biden’s dead-of-night come-from-behind to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, the Trump team appear to have gathered their wits and settled on a strategy combining legal battles with good, old-fashioned stump politics.
What we’re hearing: Obits for those who cast ballots are part of the “specific pieces of evidence” aimed at bolstering the Trump team’s so-far unsupported claims of widespread voter fraud and corruption that they say led to Joe Biden’s victory.
Fueling the effort is the expected completion of vote counting this week, allowing Republicans to file for more recounts.
What’s next: Team Trump is ready to announce specific recount teams in key states, and it plans to hold a series of Trump rallies focused on the litigation.
With the margins so thin in a raft of battleground states, recounts are a given. We can expect to see Al Gore’s Florida lawfare, at least half a dozen times over.
In Georgia: Doug Collins, the outgoing congressman who lost to Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a special election to fill former Sen. Johnny Isakson‘s seat, will be leading the campaign’s recount efforts. The team has also redeployed 92 staffers from Florida to Georgia, doubling its group on the ground.
In Arizona: Kory Langhofer, former counsel for Trump’s 2016 transition, will serve as lead attorney.
In Pennsylvania: Porter Wright’s Ron Hicks is heading up the legal effort.
Nationwide: They’re assembling additional surrogates and lawyers.
“We want to make sure we have an adequate supply of manpower on the ground for man-to-man combat,” one adviser said.
But winning in the courts – if it is successful – will only be half the battle. Trump will have to convince at least the half of the country who voted for him that this is a fight for democracy, not just sore losing. Trump’s marathon rallies will, once again, be his greatest weapon in the battle for hearts and minds.
The group is also staffing a campaign-style media operation.
The team led by Trump communications director Tim Murtaugh is now a surrogate messaging center. It will pump out “regular press briefings, releases on legal action and obviously things like talking points and booking people strategically on television,” one adviser said.
Trump’s supporters’ mood is already clearly volcanic. The president clearly plans to stoke that fire and maintain his followers’ rage and determination.
However it goes, it is clear that all the left-media blatherskite about “bringing America together” is just so much snake oil. Democrats have spent four years refusing to accept an election. It’s a bit rich for them to expect the other half of America to just roll over, now. The “deplorables” won’t be having any of it.
And that’s what Trump will be banking on.
If you enjoyed this BFD article please consider sharing it with your friends.
