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Trump’s Private Anger Over Kamala’s Poll Surge Takes an Ominous Turn

With Trump venting that Kamala Harris’s success shows he’s being cheated, a prominent Never Trumper explains why we need to start thinking now about another coup attempt.

Donald Trump glares and frowns
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Former President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump is deeply unsettled about Kamala Harris’s successful launch, even as polls show her edging into a small lead. His anger has led him to escalate the private conspiracy-mongering about Democrats supposedly cheating in the election. We talked to Amanda Carpentera leading Never Trump conservative and an editor at Protect Democracyabout why it’s so disturbing that Trump is already laying the groundwork to overturn a loss, a novel way he might try to pull this off, and whether the GOP will ever move beyond MAGA. Listen to this episode here.