Rightwing claim of ‘0% chance’ of fair US election previews effort to undo 2024 result

Mike Howell makes comment at Heritage Foundation event where implausible post-election scenarios were shared

A major conservative thinktank previewed rightwing efforts to overturn the 2024 election on Thursday, with a top official saying there was a 0% chance of a free and fair election".

Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, made the comments at an event in Washington sharing the results of a hypothetical exercise mapping out several implausible scenarios that could take place after the election. The outlandish scenarios involved Barbara Streisand being kidnapped by Hamas, antifa-BLM protesters taking over a detention facility and the FBI arresting Donald Trump after winning the election.