Trump has already 'joked' about defying 2020 election results. Here's what could

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LiberalArkie (11,200 posts)
Trump has already ‘joked’ about defying 2020 election results. Here’s what could happen if he refuses to concede
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213010464

Have you ever considered what happens when Donald Trump loses in November?

One year ago, his former attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress that Trump would not accept electoral defeat this upcoming election. Sadly, he’s probably right: If there’s one thing Trump has been consistent about, it’s that he narcissistically refuses to accept reality whenever it’s in any way negative toward him. This is why Trump has repeatedly, and ridiculously, insisted that he won the popular vote in 2016. In his very first meeting with Congressional leaders, he told them he won the popular vote because “3 to 5 million people voted illegally, and I’m not even counting California.”

Despite images to the contrary, Trump still refuses to accept that his sparsely attended inauguration was anything except the largest in history. Trump is so mentally incapable of admitting defeat that he literally took a Sharpie marker to an official map rather than admit he got something wrong. Most people found that hilarious, while others thought it pathetic.

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As with so many other things, Trump is going to change that dynamic. There are many possible scenarios, but several have Trump likely calling the election for himself long before the votes are in. If the results are not breaking his way during the election, expect Trump to cry fraud. Washington Monthly put out a very plausible sequence of events of what might happen once this occurs. Trump would declare, probably through a tweet, that he is hearing “from a lot of people” that polling sites are “fixed” and “rigged” against him. After Trump claims fraud, the GOP leadership is almost certain to back him up. His chief bootlickers, like Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham, will call for bogus investigations.

If the vote comes down to a state like Florida, where the GOP is in full control, they likely won’t certify the Democratic winner. Even if it came down to a purple state that refuses to fix the election, like Pennsylvania, recall that our constitution requires the current vice president to certify the election results. Mike Pence, who is the most submissive veep in our nation’s history, will not do this if Trump instructs him not to. The GOP has likely already calculated this, because in that event, the decision would go to the House of Representatives, where each state gets one vote. Since there are more GOP controlled states than Democratic ones, the victor would most assuredly be Trump.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/trump-has-already-joked-about-defying-2020-election-results-heres-what-could-happen-if-he-refuses-to-concede/
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Star Member BSdetect (6,693 posts)

1. This scenario indicates yet another flaw in the system.

Star Member malaise (202,014 posts)

6. The same secret service who protect him now will drag him out if he doesn't leave

I'm beginning to question why

your

national anthem includes home of the brave. I cannot believe the fear on display by some DUers

Star Member Bettie (8,199 posts)

7. We've come to realize that our system only works

if both sides agree that "laws" are indeed an actual thing.

Republicans no longer believe this.

 

Star Member mahina (10,962 posts)

9. Read The anti-coup by Gene Sharp

This is the link to download http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TAC-1.pdf

https://www.aeinstein.org/books/the-ant-coup/

Or for 5 bucks buy it
You’ll be glad.

https://www.aeinstein.org/books/the-ant-coup/

As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.

 

struggle4progress (105,861 posts)

19. It's irresponsible to devise scenarios for these thugs

 

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LiberalArkie (11,200 posts)
Trump has already ‘joked’ about defying 2020 election results. ...

He's mocking your TDS hysteria, moron! Maybe instead of fantasizing about Trump refusing to accept defeat you should be worrying about whether ANY Dem could defeat him,   .