If he is facing a sound defeat, chickenshit trump may drop out [View all]
Faced with certain defeat, say in early October, and the polls show him losing badly trump has three options
He might try to stop the election on the pretext of some emergency, resurgent covid pandemic, mail in ballot fraud, or starting a nuclear war. Of course he can’t postpone the election on his own as many point out repeatedly that elections are run by the states. But if he could persuade or threaten enough republicans run states to postpone their elections he could assure Biden couldn’t get enough electoral college votes from the Democratic states to get to 270. This seems like a long shot. But plausible.
Or
He could do nothing prior to the election and try to fight the results in court and in the streets. He could incite his MAGA “army” of gun nuts to swarm to DC to protect him and kill any opposing protestors. This seems likely but is doomed to fail. The upper brass of the Pentagon has already told him this week that he’s not using their troops to kill Americans and his MAGA horde isn’t going to fight the army who mobilizes to remove him from power. Unless it is agonizingly close SCOTUS won’t save him either.
Or
He may drop out. He can’t face LOSING but may try to save face and come up with some medical excuse and say “I’m having heart trouble and I’m dropping out.” This would fit his pattern of being a chickenshit and coward. The last thing on earth he could accept is losing. If he knows he’s going to lose in November and can’t strong arm his way to stay in power he is most likely to cut and run.
He may just bail on the Republican Party 4 weeks before the election.
You heard it here first.
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