Sometimes a writer comes up with a sentence that summarizes the broader meaning of the day’s news so well there’s not much you can add. Here’s Dave Weigel:

The way things are going, if the GOP doesn’t win this election, I’d say there’s a 20% chance of a congressional investigation into vote fraud and a 5% chance of an Avignon Presidency set up by those who refuse to believe the election was lost.

I’d say the first percentage is way too low, and with a few more days like this one, the second may be too low as well.

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.