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He certainly will try to rig the election in his favor. I doubt there is much he would not do to make the "results" show himself as the winner.
On the other hand, if he cannot successfully rig the election and he loses the electoral vote then I cannot imagine that he will attempt to stay in office. That would be a very foolish and dangerous thing to do. And unlike many other foolish things that Trump has done, the danger in this case would be to himself - not one of his lackeys. Trump is too much of a coward to risk it.
He will contest the results with his fullest vigor.
If he loses a close election, he will push to recount everything.
If he loses in a landslide, he will go full rigged mode and claim a conspiracy.
The Supreme Court will not help home the way the helped settle Bush/Gore in 2000.
He will be gone by January 20.
And I can almost guarantee that he will not attend the inauguration of Biden. He is too immature to do that.
He won't attempt to stay in office past Jan 20, but he will make the biggest stink and go kicking and screaming all the way up to that day.
And this will hurt the peaceful transition that America is known for.
Trump is going to do some harsh damage to the reputation of the Republican party.
That party may disappear and be replaced the way the Whigs disappeared and were replaced by the Republican party.
Then Republicans and Democrats gradually swapped ideologies over time.
FDR would have been a Republican in the 1860s and Lincoln would have been a Democrat in the 1930s.
Will Trump's fall give rise to the Libertarians?
Libertarians love Trump's hands off approach and tax cuts but hate his big government spending.