Are Trump voters ready to die for the Donald? This Trump advisor thinks so.

Thankfully, he's almost certainly wrong

How far would Trump supporters go for him?
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Donald Trump has begun laying the groundwork for resisting an electoral defeat at the hands of Hillary Clinton. On Sean Hannity's Fox News show Monday, Trump said: "November 8, we'd better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged... I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it's going to be taken away from us."

This fits with advice that Trump operative Roger Stone gave to Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos a few days earlier, saying: "I think we have widespread voter fraud... If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate... we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government... I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in."

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.