The Coup Everyone Sees Coming

All the Ways Trump Can Lose and Yet Still Win

Maya Angelou once famously said, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” And yet, with the election now just over three weeks away — and the twice-impeached, 91-times-indicted former President still somehow running neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris in practically every swing state poll — it appears this is a lesson America has sadly yet to learn. But make no mistake: this is our last chance to do so. For while it’s all but certain that, on November 5th, millions more Americans will cast their vote for the Vice President, the outcome in our Electoral College is quite literally anyone’s guess at this point. After all, five times in our nation’s history, including twice in the last quarter century alone, has the winner of the popular vote gone on to lose in the Electoral College, the most recent beneficiary of this bizarre, blatantly undemocratic system being Mr. Trump himself in 2016. Despite receiving nearly three million fewer quotes than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, Trump nevertheless carried the Electoral College by a count of 306–232 (with 270 being the minimum number required for victory).

If the latest swing state polling averages are indeed correct — and there is every reason to believe that they are — then a similar outcome remains a very real…