This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 18th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

How does this presidential race play out if it's close?

Both parties have built in excuses, pardon me, reasons not to accept the outcome. And we should remember the

president of the United States currently running behind complained about the rigged election

of 2016 that he won.

J.D. Tuchile of Reason argues that the final result again, if the election is close,

won't be good for faith in American institutions.

When we talk about the integrity of the 2020 election, and it's just, it's, it continues to be bonkers to me that that is a discussion that needs to be had.

What are the aspects of it that concern you most?

I think what we're looking at is the unwillingness of the two major political factions

in this country to accept loss and to accept the legitimacy of a win by the other

side. We've reached a point where our country is, well, big parts of the country, certainly not the whole thing, but big

parts of the country are divided into two main political factions.

They despise each other.

They live largely separate from each other. They have different values, different lifestyles,

and they view each other not just as opponents within a legitimate democratic system but as enemies. no one can really afford to lose a major

contest to an enemy.

So this speaks very high.

Practically speaking, what does that mean? When it comes to, like, what, when it comes to the mechanics of an election, what does that mean?

Practically speaking, well, there's an awful lot of tradition involved in accepting a loss in election.

A lot of it is simply, we have a custom of simply saying, I won or I lost at the end of an election.

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