A coalition of Democrats and the center-right should first target members of Congress who narrowly won election in red districts and are among the most virulent in perpetuating the election fraud myths.

At the top of the list should be election deniers like GOP Reps. Scott Perry, Burgess Owens, Bob Good, Dan Bishop, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert and Madison Cawthorn. It’s early in the cycle, so the field of potential opponents is still fuzzy, and redistricting will shift some of these lawmakers’ districts. But in the case of Perry and Boebert, both have already drawn principled GOP primary opponents. Brian Allen, a right-leaning political newcomer, is primarying Perry. A moderate GOP state senator, Don Coram, is challenging Boebert.

Both Allen and Coram’s primary runs look quixotic at this point in a party dominated by Trump, but if they ran as right-leaning independents in the general election — with no Democrat on the ballot — the math could work. Democrats in each race won 46 percent and 45 percent of the 2020 votes, respectively. An independent candidate would only need to peel off a few percentage points of the GOP vote to win in the general election.

This scenario, of course, requires the Democratic Party organization and its voters to fall in line and support a former Republican.