Which makes it more likely that his last ditch effort will be a reprise of “Come to Washington on January 6. It will be wild!”

I’m going to disagree. Jan 6 was a last ditch attempt to get Pence to change his mind and go along with the fake elector plan. The current VP has zero chance of acquiescing to that plan this time. Fake electors are off the table.

Instead the plan is to put a monkey wrench into a much earlier step in the process.

Local election offices in multiple swing states have been filled with MAGA faithful ready and willing to refuse to certify their local results based on some made-up irregularities. Many of these folks gave the idea a test run in the recent primaries. So they’ve had a chance to learn a little bit about what seems to work and what doesn’t.

It’s a bit unclear what exactly will happen when they refuse to certify in the general election. That’s almost certainly a state by state thing. But what it will do is create questions and open the door for chaos. And that chaos is exactly what Trump wants. He thrives in chaos. It gives him the chance to continue to sow fear and doubt among his easily duped followers.

—Peter