Daily Beast: “As Election Day turned into election week early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump had a simple message for his closest political and legal advisers as they began charting a plan to challenge and temporarily halt ballot counts in several key states: give them a court fight that ‘they’ll never forget.’ The president’s remarks, relayed by two people familiar with them, came on the morning after an inconclusive election night, but one that seemed trending Joe Biden’s way. And for Team Trump, it was meant as a clarion call to use every possible legal resource and bit of political organizing to help re-tip the balance of the scale.”

“Trump told his advisers that, even if Biden were to claw the presidency away from him, he wanted them to ‘go down fighting’ harder than they ever had before, one of the sources with direct knowledge said. By Wednesday afternoon, some semblance of that approach began to materialize. In Detroit, pro-Trump protesters showed up at a ballot counting site demanding access to the officials and insisting that the counting be ended. In Arizona, one of Trump’s closest congressional allies, Rep. Paul Gosar, put out a ‘call to action’ for ‘red blooded American patriots’ to attend a rally to ‘protect our president’ at the Maricopa County election center. In Nevada, a Trump supporter interrupted a registrar of voters press conference by declaring ‘the Biden crime family steals this election.’ And throughout the day, the Trump campaign peppered donors and supporters with text messages and emails asking for money to help fund—what it erroneously called—an attempt by Democrats to ‘steal’ the election.”