Trump lays groundwork to challenge potential Harris win with false narrative on noncitizen voters

The 19th is committed to covering the unfinished business of voting rights.

For months , former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been spreading false narratives about noncitizen voting.

With weeks to go before the presidential election, they are ramping up their messaging and tactics.

It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections.

Since Harris became the presidential nominee this summer , Trump has challenged the Democrat ’s candidacy in a way that goes beyond general competition between major party candidates.

Trump and his allies filed more than 60 lawsuits to challenge his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden .

The Harris campaign has laid out its legal strategy in a memo obtained by The 19th ..

Election officials and law enforcement leaders are thinking about how do we keep voters and election officials safe this cycle? “Just like the anti-democracy movement has evolved, there’s still this concern and very heightened threat environment, there has been a real supercharged effort on the pro-democracy side to keep people safe.”.