And how dangerous it is for one of the candidates to claim differently.
Its the sort of shortsighted tactic one might use to win, once, but damages the one who uses it in the long term.
After all, it opens the door for future claims, destroys trust in the process, and therefore destroys the legitimacy of whoever wins.
Kinda like the NC Republican strategy - which anyone could have seen was the kind of thing that only works once. Once you've shown your hand, the other side is likely to take countermeasure (they were apparently dumb enough to think they could do a vote without the Dems again, and somehow surprised the Dems made sure to have someone monitoring who could bring everyone back for the vote).
Like - aside from fair play and morality arguments - what sort of fools think these will actually work in the long run? How has our stereotypical problem with "winning the battle but losing the war* infected so many of our politicians that nobody was able to stop this crap before it even started?
BOTH parties ought to hope and pray for a secure 2020 election, because anything else undermines the legitimacy of everyone.
Not just for this election, but all future elections as well.
And I suppose there have been too many fools already, and I can't neglect to add a comment on how important legitimacy is. Which, obviously, is very... But it's the kind of thing that is impossible to quantify, and a government can succeed with a low level of it. It's just that you never know when the lack of legitimacy will break a system, so it's better to play it safe.
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