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On August 9, the record around Trump’s alternate-electors strategy was becoming harder to wave away as harmless legal theory. Reporting that day laid out how the plan was built, how it moved, and why it now looked like a live liability in the broader effort to overturn the 2020 result.
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On August 9, the record around Trump’s alternate-electors strategy was becoming harder to wave away as harmless legal theory. Reporting that day laid out how the plan was built, how it moved, and why it now looked like a live liability in the broader effort to overturn the 2020 result.
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On August 9, the record around Trump’s alternate-electors strategy was becoming harder to wave away as harmless legal theory. Reporting that day laid out how the plan was built, how it moved, and why it now looked like a live liability in the broader effort to overturn the 2020 result.
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