[5] The Transition Integrity Project was initially organized in late 2019[6] by Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown and former Pentagon senior official, and Nils Gilman, a former vice chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and historian at the Berggruen Institute.
TIP was motivated to do a short term project by their assessment that the November elections would "be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape.
[18][19][20][21] Representative Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, noted that only the Congress has the authority to change laws that deal with the date of the election.
"Absentee Ballots are a great way to vote for the many senior citizens, military, and others who can't get to the polls on Election Day.
[30] Trump has also claimed that Democrats' efforts to expand the availability of mail-in voting and ballot collection will result in widespread voter fraud.
This outcome could be especially likely in the event of a so-called "Red Mirage", where Trump appears to have won on election night but actually loses after all of the mail-in ballots have been tallied.
[32] In September 2020, a federal judge issued an injunction against the recent USPS actions, ruling that Trump and Postmaster Louis DeJoy were "involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service," adding that the 14 states requesting the injunction "demonstrated that this attack on the Postal Service is likely to irreparably harm the states' ability to administer the 2020 general election.
The report stated, "We […] assess that the [sic] President Trump is likely to contest the result by both legal and extra-legal means, in an attempt to hold onto power.
[45] They gamed out three scenarios: They concluded that even in the face of public unrest and attempted interference by Russia and China, the constitutional order would prevail.
[50][51][52][53][54][55][56] The day after Trump's lawyers abandoned their court case in Michigan courts, Trump summoned Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield to the White House to discuss having the legislature ignore the loss at the ballot box and certify electors favorable to him.
In addition, on January 6, 2021, the day Congress met to certify the votes of the Electoral College, Donald Trump held a rally in front of the White House[67] calling for a march on the Capital which resulted in a riot.
In response, Nancy Pelosi, The Speaker of the House, and many Democrats called for one article of Impeachment[68] against Donald J. Trump for, "Incitement of Insurrection".