I understand why Republicans want to believe this. They don't want to choose a convicted criminal as a President - that's a tough thing to do. That's why all the Biden Crime Family stuff was so important, to give conflicted Republicans the belief that Biden was just as criminal as Trump, but that he hadn't been convicted. But there's nothing like that for Harris.

But that is exactly why they're switching to the coup narrative. I believe that Trump is laying the ground work to repeat his attempts at a coup should he lose. I've posted about that in other threads, so won't repeat it here.

The need for a coup narrative against Harris is exactly the same as the need for a criminal narrative against Biden. To legitimize Trump.

When Trump loses and begins his coup attempt, he will sell it as doing exactly what Harris did. "She went against the voters." "She installing herself as the candidate." His MAGA minions will say they are doing the same thing that Democrats did in removing Biden from the nomination. Even though that isn't true. Biden removed himself.

You know that Biden did not succumb to a coup. I know that. Most thinking people know that. But that isn't important. If Trump can sell the coup narrative about Biden to his followers, that will legitimize their attempt at an actual coup to install Trump even if he loses the election. After all, "The Democrats did it, why can't the Republicans?" "I should have been running against Biden, and we all know I would have won."

--Peter