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"We don't want to have Pennsylvania, where you have a political governor, a very partisan guy. ... We don't want to be in a position where he's allowed, every day, to watch ballots come in. See if we can only find 10,000 more ballots."

Said Trump, quoted in "Scoop: Trump's plan to declare premature victory" (Axios). The purported "scoop" ? which is not the quote I have in the post title ? is attributed to "three sources familiar with his private comments." If I understand journalese correctly, the sources do not claim to have heard Trump say whatever they say he said, they've just heard about it, whether second hand or third hand or eighth hand or whatever, there's no way to know. I presume Trump's idea is to claim v read more

Full post as published by Althouse on November 02, 2020 (boomark / email).