A group of planners with Democrats, as well as a few anti-Trump Republicans is considering different options to respond to doomsday for the upcoming US presidential election.

Frustrated with Trump, this group thinks the president is likely to destroy the campaign before, during, or after Election Day and is therefore involved in a process that began based on science fiction but has slowly come closer to reality as the current administration disregard long-established political norms. The anxiety has doubled recently while Trump continues to question the integrity of mail voting and suggests that the election system is designed to provide an outcome against him.

Trump's Republican allies, on the other hand, seem to be gearing up to stop funding states that do not fulfill his wishes on expanding mail voting, while also intensifying claims of voters frauds in key battleground states despite lack of pieces of evidence, New York Times reported. Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks said in a span of 8 to 10 months, people have evolved from a state of complete disbelief to realize that could happen.

Brooks assembled a group of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans to consider methods the current administration could adopt to spoil the upcoming election and to consider how that can be prevented. This anxiety is not restricted to just outside groups. Washington-based lawyer Marc Elias is in charge of leading the Democratic National Committee’s legal efforts to eliminate measures that suppress voters.

Elias says that senior Democratic officials often ask him whether the president is planning to postpone or cancel the impending election. Urged by allies to explain why not, Elias wrote a column for his website and ended up drawing more traffic than ever before. It is worth mentioning here that changing of election date is not what Elias is concerned about.

According to Elias, the Trump administration could come up with some sort of a plan in Oct. to make it harder for people to vote in the key battleground states' urban centers. In an attempt to make that happen, Elias believes Trump could declare a state of emergency and either deploy National Guard or ban gatherings of ten or more people.

If that comes to fruition, Elias believes turnouts would be considerably affected, especially in places that mostly vote for Democrats. To avoid this from happening, Elias is already engaged in multiple lawsuits that simplify casting absentee ballots by mail while making in-person voting options more accessible, either on Election Day or in the previous weeks.