re: #447 steve_davis

can we please stop with this? There is no conceivable scenario in which Trump loses the next election and somehow remains in power. Past January 21st of 2021. The Chief Justice will be swearing in a new president at that time. The military will be ceding civilian control to the new administration. Trump is welcome to bitch about it as much as he wants to between November and January, but there will be a transition going on, and nothing Trump or Republicans in the House can do to stop it. There is absolutely no constitional process by which an outgoing president can claim something was rigged so as to stay in power. The system was specifically designed so that this cannot happen. The military won’t support it. The Supreme Court wouldn’t support it. The House won’t support it. Inidividual state legislatures won’t support it.

I agree with you 100%. Trump likes to rant to boost his ratings and it’s certainly possible that his Russian handler is encouraging to stay on, but as much as he is a bully, he’s not going to do anything but run off at the mouth when he leaves office; he will use a defeat as an opportunity to raise money, get television time, demand stronger voter suppression laws, and try to run again in 2024, assuming he’s not in prison for income tax evasion.