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(Tom Friedman) President Trump has made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks  and even more crystal clear at the Tuesday debate  that there are only two choices before voters on Nov. 3  and electing Joe Biden is not one of them. The president has told us in innumerable ways that either he will be re-elected or he will delegitimize the vote by claiming that all mail-in ballots  a time-honored tradition that has ushered Republicans and Democrats into office and has been used by Trump himself  are invalid.



Trumps motives could not be more transparent. If he does not win the Electoral College, hell muddy the results so that the outcome can be decided only by the Supreme Court or the House of Representatives (where each state delegation gets one vote). Trump has advantages in both right now, which he has boasted about for the past week. I cant say this any more clearly: Our democracy is in terrible danger  more danger than it has been since the Civil War, more danger than after Pearl Harbor, more danger than during the Cuban missile crisis and more danger than during Watergate.



To get back a semblance of unity and sanity, Biden has to win. And that is why I have only one answer to every question now: Vote for Biden  do it by mail early if you must, but if you can, please, put on a mask and do it in person. If enough of us do that, Biden can win outright with the votes cast on Election Day, instead of waiting for all the mail-in ballots to be counted, thereby giving time for Trump and Fox News to muddy the outcome.



So help register someone to vote for Joe Biden. Phone bank for Joe Biden. Talk to your neighbor about Joe Biden. Volunteer for Joe Biden. Drive someone to the polls to vote for Joe Biden.