Amy Davidson for the New Yorker:

As with so much of the ugliness during this election season, that line of thinking did not originate with Trump but with the Republican establishment, which has spent years pushing the myth of voter fraud as an excuse for coming up with ways to make it harder for minorities and poor people to cast their ballots—stringent voter-I.D. laws, fewer polling stations, a shorter voting window. As has frequently been observed in this campaign, Trump shouts where others whisper, but the message is the same. The volume accentuates the atmosphere of crisis and alarm; the message is of a country being stolen away. This is one of the many reasons a demagogue is dangerous and a sensible, grounding question like the one Holt posed is so valuable. Trump might not stick to his answer, but, in terms of introducing at least a whiff of sanity to this electoral affair, having it on the record is a start. And it should serve notice to Republican leaders, such as Paul Ryan, about the choices they might have to make after the election. Trump can do a great deal of damage to the polity even if he loses, and the G.O.P. will have to decide whether to abet him.