I don’t think so.
They know they are going to lose.
They know even after the dust settles they are going to lose.
They just want to steal President Trump’s thunder by questioning the results as long as possible.
They have no hopes of actually winning or even stealing the election.
They just want to must the waters, mute the victory as much as possible, so as to prevent him from claiming a “mandate“.
Good luck with that. It won’t work. President Trump will certainly claim a mandate - that’s what he does.
He will probably win the popular vote by a healthy margin and win 370-380 electoral college votes. But if he wins only 310-320, he will call it the greatest landslide ever.
I can only hope that will be the case. Hoping, because the other scenario is likely as well — enough corrupt people making sure enough bogus ballots slip through to ensure that the Axios scenario is a form of prophecy.
I’d call that irrational exuberance.
Democrats will cheat like their ill-gotten white-collar criminal fortunes depend on it, because it does. They are bound to cheat like never before, and what they’ve learned before is enough to be successful and probably undetected by the law. They’ve been getting away with it for decades. They will cheat, litigate, riot, and frame opposing voters and judges as liars and cheaters (and violent racists, of course) until they get their way.
There is no peaceful way they will not prevail.