This is an adapted quote 30 October Episode “All In with Chris Hayes”.

Tuesday’s elections are approaching It’s one of the closest races anyone has ever seen in U.S. history. Polls nationally and in key states show: a dead heat between former president Donald Trump And Vice President Kamala Harris.

People in what we used to call the reality-based community understand that this is a very tight race in a very divided country and it could go either way, but the story on the right… it doesn’t.

According to conservative media, Trump is preparing to win next week’s elections by a landslide. Fox News guests predict former president will do this win every swing state and the host Greg Gutfeld has already declared the election over. “Donald Trump has that.”

For a while now, the story on the right has been that Trump was heading for victory and was well ahead. They say Harris’ campaign is collapsing and the only way they can win the election is to steal the election. This isn’t as true as it was four years ago, but that hasn’t stopped Trump. We are telling the same lies on the campaign trail this year.

Trump may win this election outright, but since he’s been telegraphing for four years, cheating on the plan and casting doubt on the outcome in advance So if things don’t go his way, he can claim the election was stolen. Just like he did last time.

In fact, on Tuesday, Steve Bannon, one of the former convicts advising Trump, He held a press conference after being released from prison and almost immediately said Trump’s main mistake on election night 2020 was that he took too long to falsely declare victory. It’s a mistake Trump says he shouldn’t make again this year.

They are applying the same “Stop the Steal” playbook as they did four years ago; you know, when they tried to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump and dozens of others still face investigation. On Wednesday, a reporter asked the former president about his election night plans and whether he expected to declare victory that night.

Trump, by the way He wears a reflective vest and gets into his branded garbage truck, “I hope we will declare victory,” he told his reporter, then expressed doubts about the results from the voting machines.

Same old song. But this time, Republicans’ core message gets a big signal boost. Not just from Fox News, but also from social media platform X and its owner, Elon Musk is the Trump-loving reactionary billionaire and the world’s biggest disinformation broker. This is just one of the places Trump and his allies post Unsubstantiated claims of “massive scale” “cheating” in Pennsylvania early voting.

Now, it has been revealed that some voter fraud may have occurred; but that’s not being done in Pennsylvania or by the Democrats. on tuesday Indiana state police say they arrested Republican Larry Savage precinct committeeman and former congressional candidate. Police said the man stole two ballots from a testing of voting machines and then claimed the machines were faulty.

Investigators also searched Savage’s phone and found a message that read: “Brother, they’re saying all about the ballots I received,” according to court documents. Investigators also say he posted on a social media page denouncing the county’s election procedures shortly before police found the stolen ballots in his truck.

Meanwhile, like Republicans paving the way for another election theft attempt, Democrats are trying to do what they did in 2020 and 2022; that is, encouraging people to vote and win a close race.

Chris Hayes

Hosted by Chris Hayes“Everything with Chris Hayes” Monday through Friday at 8pm ET on MSNBC. He is editor-in-chief of The Nation. A former fellow of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Hayes was the Bernard Schwartz Fellow of the New America Foundation. His latest book is “Colony in a Nation” (WW Norton).

Allison Detzel contributed.