'Why bother?' Analyst warns Trump 'hyperbole' could be hurting Harris' voter turnout

Experts warning of "election calamity" may actually be doing a disservice to voters, former conservative turned anti-GOP columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote for The Washington Post — by damaging the confidence people have in the electoral process.

This could lead to supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris staying home, saying "If it's rigged, why bother?" and simply handing Trump a clean win, the Post columnist wrote.

Instead of "hyperbole," Rubin wrote, it's time that everyone takes a step back and be grateful for everything already put in place to prevent chaos.

"In 2020, Trump lost more than 60 cases because in a court of law, as opposed to Fox News or a Trump rally, you need evidence — not wild accusations — of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the result. There was none then, and in the absence of such evidence this time around, even the most conservative judges will not take it upon themselves to defy the will of the voters and bring down our democratic system," wrote Rubin.

Meanwhile, she noted, Congress has updated the Electoral Count Act to clearly ban the likely already illegal procedure Trump and his allies wanted to use to force former Vice President Mike Pence to throw out votes.

All of this also comes as state judges are intervening against mischief, with Georgia courts blocking a MAGA-stacked state election board from making changes to how ballots are counted and certified.

Even intervention by a partisan Supreme Court, while possible, is unlikely, Rubin wrote.

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"Winning over five votes to flip multiple states where the margin may be hundreds, if not tens, of thousands of votes is not realistic. And although we all remember Bush v. Gore, a case in which a few hundred votes in a single state were decisive (where a highly partisan court found a rationale for tipping the election), the chances of that happening twice in our lifetimes is astronomically small."

The main thing to worry about now, wrote Rubin, is not that election chaos will occur, but that voters fearing it will stay home.

"None of this should encourage complacency. Instead, Trump’s transparent schemes should prompt democracy defenders to turn out in force and thereby prevent the electoral college outcome from coming down to a single state," concluded Rubin.

What it means, she wrote, is that "the media and opinion makers should stay away from catastrophizing before the election and, once the votes are in, refrain from declaring that the election is 'in dispute' because of bogus lawsuits."