“Trump has privately talked through this scenario in some detail in the last few weeks, describing plans to walk up to a podium on election night and declare he has won.” Axios: Trump’s plan to declare premature victory. And from AP: Campaign draws to a close as Trump threatens legal action. (There are many ways to project confidence going into an election day. Threatening legal action is not one of them.)

+ Barton Gellman in The Atlantic: The Biden team is preparing for the worst. Here are three possible scenarios.

+ Politico: ‘There Are No Boundaries’: Experts Imagine Trump’s Post-Presidential Life if He Loses.

+ I shared my takes and covered these matters in detail yesterday. The Count of Mar a Lago.