From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

At the Democratic National Convention, party officials are celebrating polls showing

that Kamala Harris is now competitive with Donald Trump in every major swing state across the country.

Today, the story of how Republican officials in one of those swing states have taken over an obscure unelected board

to lay the groundwork for challenging a potential Harris victory this fall.

My colleague Nick Coruscanynei explains. It's Thursday, August 22nd.

Thursday, August 22nd. Nick, we're talking to you from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but you're not

there primarily to cover Kamala Harris's nomination. Instead you have been

focused for a couple of years now on the Republican election strategy for this

election.

Yeah, so what I've been focused on really over the past four years since the

2020 election and the efforts of Trump and his allies to overturn his loss is this growing movement on the right

to kind of disrupt and erode and destabilize the American electoral process.

A movement that really never went away, even though many people stop paying attention to it.

Exactly. This has been very much alive and very much active, just more in the shadows.

You know, this is a loose network of political

operatives, of activists, of lawyers, of local organizations

and national organizations of conservative think tanks and sometimes even

state Republican parties.

And they've been trying to find weaknesses in the American electoral infrastructure.

And they've got a couple of strategies that they've really deployed over the past four years to help get them there.

Such as what?

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