Opinion: How Trump plans to win the presidency

While many Democrats still consider former President Donald Trump to be about pure chaotic improvisation and impulse, they should consider that his campaign team has put together a very clear roadmap as to how they intend to work different institutions to their advantage. A potentially successful multi-prong strategy with electoral, media, legal, legislative and third-party intervention appears to be in place.While 2020 was about subverting the Electoral College, Trump has been trying to work the rules to his advantage in 2024. In Nebraska, for example, Trump’s allies are attempting to pressure the legislature into changing their state rules so that they have a winner-take-all system. (Unlike the winner-take-all approach of most other states, Nebraska’s existing system distributes electoral votes proportionally to the candidate who is victorious in each of the state’s three congressional districts, with another two votes granted to the candidate who wins the statewide tally.)A shift in the rules would avoid a similar fate to 2020, when President Joe Biden won an electoral vote from one congressional district while Trump secured the other four. This time, Trump seems to wants them all, realizing that one vote could make the difference. These tactics build on the ways that Trump’s...