If Donald Trump loses the election this November, why would he not once again try to subvert that loss?
This is not a baseless question, certainly. Both Trump’s critics and his supporters agree that Trump tried to prevent Joe Biden from taking office; they just disagree on the validity of that effort. Most Republicans — 62 percent in a December Washington Post-University of Maryland poll — believe there is solid evidence that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, which is false. This belief undergirds the idea that Trump’s post-2020-election efforts were rooted in his fighting against an illegal effort to influence the presidency rather than being such an illegal effort.
