Very likely scenario is that on Election Night he appears to win, but in the next week or two lots of mail and absentee ballots comes in and he ends up losing. Should Trump concede in such a scenario? Or should he fight because "mail in ballots are fraud"? and how would he fight? recount all mail ballots? demand a new election? order the Army to protect him and keep him in office?
They will extradite him back to NY so maybe he should save the jet fuel for his — then — private attorneys.
He might be able to fight a narrow loss, with a major loss or several states he will not have much recourse and will try to plunder the treasury as quickly as possible while refusing to concede. Nov to Jan is going to be interesting either way. He will definitely call for recounts and investigations regardless and will likely demand a new election (or the results to be voided all together). Of course he will just be “joking”.
There is no 'likely scenario'. We are in politically uncharted waters. Neither candidate should concede until its 100% confirmed that the other candidate got more verified, legitimate electoral votes.
if Biden has a narrow win and he won more mail/absentee ballots that Trump, Trump will refuse to concede and will need to be removed by force from the White House. it will be fun to watch.
Yes if he loses on election day. No if he loses later because of votes from wholesale mailings of ballots. Our elections are now rigged.
In the midterms, before the virus, it took 9 days. Now we got the virus, Trump f***ed over the postal service, and you want to make him Fuhrer. But it's great that you love your dictator.
Trump doesn't really have much of a choice as to concede or not. Congress will certify the election and they will count all the votes. if Trump loses, its over. however if the Republicans refuse to certify the election, the Senior member of the Senate takes over Presidential duties and he is a Democrat.
No he should concede pack up the family and go to a nice little tax haven with no extradition treaties with America
He has already done that https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rance-trip-having-art-loaded-on-air-force-one Lols,!! https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blo...ssy-in-france-but-none-of-it-is-the-real-deal
There will be a cutoff date for those mail in votes and the election will be over and done within two weeks. He will then get back to the business of draining the swamp.
Whether Trump concedes after losing is irrelevant. Even if the winner is still in doubt he is no longer President if he has not been certified the winner by January 20, 2021.
It depends upon how flagrant the voter fraud is. Trump has a duty to fight voter fraud. But as a wise poster on this board advises me, care what you do when in power as you are setting the policies that will exist when you are out of power.
Trump has already made it clear that he won't accept the results of the election if he loses. He'll probably still leave willingly, but I doubt we will get a real concession either.
I'm pretty sure there will be a million lawsuits over mail in ballots from both sides. Okay, an exaggeration there. Instead of counting chad, perhaps we go through millions and millions of signatures to see if they match what's on file. I assume other states have basically the same law as Georgia when it comes to signatures and the oath. But then again, you know what they say about assumptions. Here we also check the address of the absentee ballots to see that they match the address of the requester. Do other states do that? I don't know. But now instead of a few thousand absentee ballots spread all over Georgia, we could have 3 million mail ins. Then Georgia has a deadline for absentee ballots to be received which is three days prior to the election. More law suits there I'm sure. I read a couple of weeks ago a judge ordered all ballots received after election day to be counted in someplace up north. I'm not sure that judge was on constitutional grounds as the constitution gives to the states the manner of how elections are held with each state legislature setting the rules and law for their elections. Although Congress can alter such laws, which they haven't. If the election is fairly close, I see it going all the way to the SCOTUS for a decision. I read about a month ago about mail in primary ballots in Florida, I think. Where some counties had as many as 10% of the mail in declared invalid while other counties had zero percent. Yep, more lawsuits. One thing for sure, it will be interesting.
