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« on: December 03, 2020, 02:32:05 PM »
If already on election night it became evident Trump has lost in a massive blowout, would he still have come up with these fraud allegations? At least the same level as he does now. And how would Republican officials have reacted? Would they actually abandon him? Say Joe Biden wins the Rust Belt trio by mid to high single digits, flips Florida and North Carolina as well, perhaps even Texas. I actually Trump would have conceded under any scenario, even if the 413 Authoritarian Nut Map became a reality.
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2020, 02:51:52 PM »
Trump would never concede as he is a sociopath and cannot accept ever losing.  GOP would go along as he wields so much power and they are scared they will be primaried out if they oppose him.
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2020, 02:55:45 PM »
the same
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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2020, 03:23:17 PM »
If this was 5 weeks ago I would have said if he lost by a larger margin he would have reluctantly conceded and moved on, while still condemning biden. Now I doubt he would have even if it was a landslide
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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2020, 03:43:48 PM »
« Edited: December 03, 2020, 06:27:12 PM by Hindsight is 2020 »
The same but the talking point wouldn’t be “I was winning at midnight and then lost? Get real, fraud!” But something like “You really think I actually lost Texas and Florida? Get real, fraud!”
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2020, 03:59:34 PM »

This. He/they wrote the playbook months before the election. Has he ever let reality change a playbook?
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2020, 04:51:50 PM »
The same. Like babies.
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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2020, 12:33:23 AM »
If he had lost by as huge a margin as Mondale did in 1984, he'd still say he won.  In that case the message would be: "Look at all the people at my rallies!  Look at how big my base is!  It's simply mathematically impossible I lost in a landslide.  Fraud!"
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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2020, 01:59:37 AM »
Trump had no plan for his second term, it was more of the same, he hadn't passed a reform package since the failure of his 2017 tax cuts and only budget resolutions and funding for Covid. You gotta offer something and not more of the same Make America Better Again was a plagerized slogan from 1980 Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter and both Reagan and Trump turned Americans backward on race relations
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2020, 02:31:35 AM »
You guys are nuts. This is the liar and grifter who said he won the popular vote in 2016 because 3 million "illegals" voted in California. Trump was always going to find and promote a baseless crazy conspiracy to cope, Trump is that awful and degenerate.
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2020, 02:41:52 AM »
Bigger loss? I don't consider this a loss, wait till the investigation report comes out. I'll see your smiles drop one by one.
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2020, 02:44:33 AM »
Quote from: McKinnel on December 04, 2020, 02:41:52 AM
Bigger loss? I don't consider this a loss, wait till the investigation report comes out. I'll see your smiles drop one by one.

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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2020, 05:14:35 AM »
He'd blame China for hacking election.
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« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2020, 08:08:22 AM »
Quote from: McKinnel on December 04, 2020, 02:41:52 AM
Bigger loss? I don't consider this a loss, wait till the investigation report comes out. I'll see your smiles drop one by one.

Investigation report?
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