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    Is America coming apart?

    Sep 11, 2020 5 minutes
    By David French
    The View is reported by Mélissa Godin and Anna Purna Kambhampaty

    For the first time in my adult life, it’s easy for me to foresee the possibility of a genuine constitutional crisis in the United States of America. The scenario is simple. Imagine that either Joe Biden or Donald Trump wins the 2020 election in a close race. There is a surge in voter-suppression claims and mail-in ballot controversies.

    Partisans refuse to concede, and they declare the election illegitimate. President Trump himself has indicated he may not accept the outcome.

    What happens then? Well, according to a scenario planning exercise at the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan coalition of former officials concerned about the disruptions to the 2020 election, the result in every

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