If Donald Trump gets his way, the 2020 election will be a total mess. Voters will encounter long lines at the polls and struggle getting ballots through the mail. Ideally, of course, these voters will be Democrats.

If Trump loses reelection in November, any whiff of problems will allow him to question the legitimacy of the results. He has even held up the specter of chaos to call for delaying the Nov. 3 election.

With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history, he tweeted on July 30 . It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???

These problems are not inevitable. They are being encouraged by Trump, who has done all he can to make it harder for people to vote during the coronavirus pandemic. He has baselessly claimed that mail-in voting is ripe for fraud and abuse (it isnt) and admitted to depriving the postal service of funds in order to make it harder for people to vote by mail.

In a recent Fox News interview, Trump said that if they didnt get the billions that Democrats are requesting to help the post office stay afloat, that means you cant have universal mail-in voting because you theyre not equipped to have it.

The $25 billion that Democrats wanted to provide the post office was not exclusively for mail-in voting.

Trump and his allies have been laying the groundwork to question the legitimacy of the November election results for months, raising the troubling question of what will happen if the election doesnt go the presidents way. Trump may act like every other president and step aside graciously but he certainly seems to be leaving the door open to something more sinister.

Is the president saying if he doesnt win this election that he will not accept the results unless he wins? a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday.

The President has always said hell see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath, she replied .

President Barack Obama warned voters on Wednesday that nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake in November.

[T]his president and those in power those who benefit from keeping things the way they are they are counting on your cynicism, he said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. They know they cant win you over with their policies. So theyre hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that your vote doesnt matter. ... This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if thats what it takes to win.

A look at the comments Trump has made undermining whatever happens in November.