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no bull and the aftermath.

All this increases the likelihood, especially again in a closely contested election.

It increases the likelihood that we will not know the outcome of the election on November

3rd because it really will take until the time that this state's complete what's called

their canvas of the votes, that is their full counting of all these absentee, provisional

male and ballots that will really be able to say who won the presidency.

And I don't think it's any kind of accident that we see Trump already working very, very

aggressively to challenge the legitimacy of these male and ballots.

I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast June 16th, 2020.

The 2020 presidential election is less than five months away.

As the election inches closer and closer, concerns have grown about the possibility that

President Trump should he loose would refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the result.

How can we think about that risk?

Do we have adequate statutory and constitutional guardrails to protect us from all source

of electoral catastrophe?

I sat down with Lauren Stuggles, James J. Grossel, professor of law, jurisprudence,

and social thought at Amherst College, and author of the new book Will He Go, Trump and

the looming election meltdown in 2020?

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