It was Nov. 7, 2020, four days after Election Day, when media outlets, including NBC News, projected Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential race. It was the very next day, Nov. 8, that a Wisconsin lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro first proposed a scenario in which President Donald Trump could overturn the results in his state and others.
He also recognized that, rather than recounts of votes cast, “the most plausible path to Trump being reelected is for Trump, through court decisions, and/or legislative intervention, in enough contested states, to end up with, by January 6, with a majority of electoral votes from the States in which there is only one slate of electors recognized as valid by either the courts or the state legislature,” as he wrote in a Nov. 25, 2020, email .