Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today you'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the cynical preparations underway by the Trump campaign

and their propagandists at Fox, Sinclair, Newsmax, etc.,

who are obviously preparing the Maga faithful for another Stop the Steel coup attempt.

A chorus of talking heads in unison are claiming Trump will win in a landslide in a

blowout election, citing phony polls that have him way ahead in what is clearly a close election.

Joining us to discuss how the groundwork is being laid to get the Maga faithful to believe

that an assured victory was stolen once again

should Harris win is Joshua Dick, a professor and chair of the political science department

and director of the center for public opinion at the University of Massachusetts, where he teaches

courses in American politics and political communication.

He's the author of Initiatives Without Engagement,

a realistic appraisal of direct democracy's secondary effects.

Then we'll look further into what could be months of contestation after Tuesday's vote and speak with Karen Greenberg,

director of the Centre on National Security at Fordham Law School,

a future security fellow at the New America Foundation, a permanent member of the Council on

Trilateral Relations, as well as the editor-in-chief of the Aeon Cyber Brief.

She's the author of The Least Worst Place, Guantanamo's First Hundred Days, Rogue Justice,

the Making of the security

state, subtle tools, dismantling of American democracy from the war on terror to Donald Trump,

and our nation at risk, election integrity as a national security issue, co-authored with

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