Implicit in all the panicked media coverage over scenarios in which we don’t know who won the presidency on election night is that President Trump is set to make a bunch of wild claims disputing the results unless he wins.

Thomas Edsall of the New York Times is not the first, but the latest to fantasize about these hypotheticals, listing several different possible situations wherein Trump would dispute the results, “provoking anger and frustration.”

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