Yes. My guess is my friend would have trusted the State of Pennsylvania.
My guess is he also would have wondered if there was any truth to the accusations Trump made.
My friend is also smart and reasonable and not prone to drama and I'm guessing he would lean towards, "That's just Trump railing. Attorney Generals are serious lawyer types and I personally know the Attorney General in Tennessee and he'd never do anything partisan like Trump is suggesting".
He likely thought something like, "Trump is saying we have to be careful and we have to watch. But he's probably just being dramatic".
Until the Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania publicly proclaimed, "If all the votes are added up in PA, Trump is going to lose."
I'm fascinated by how this seems defensible.