BREAKING: Trump has told confidants he'll claim victory Tuesday night if it appears he's "ahead"

We've all been predicting this.

Of course

The media having created this fucking mess should for ONCE, do the right thing and refuse to air him speaking.

Who is shocked by this? Choose one:

🔲 nobody 🔲 no one at all 🔲not a soul

That's nice.

He knows the election isn't handed to whoever declares themself the winner first on tv, right?

92 million have already voted and they didn't turn out in droves for Trump.

Won’t work.

SAD LAST DAYS

He can declare himself a winner every hour on the hour, and nobody should be paying any attention. The networks will report it as 'Trump news' but I hope they won't be spending too much time on it. They should just dismiss it as yet another attempt in a long string of nefarious tricks. And I'm sure the networks won't be declaring anyone as a winner unless their decision desks are pretty certain in the math.

Amy will help me! AMYYYYY!

Asshole

It’ll be interesting to see how long, or indeed whether, Faux News waits to anoint King Donald for a second term.

"Trump just won Alabama - we predict he'll win the entire presidency!"

Make mama proud!

It doesn't matter what he claims. If he looses, on Jan 20th he is a private citizen and will be handcuffed and escorted off WH property and there is nothing that fat bloated orange pig, nor his enablers can do about it.

Trump said the Miss Universe contestants should be co winners during the Steve Harvey debacle. Maybe he and Biden can be co-winners and share the Presidency.

Hopefully it will be a blow-out.

The Turdus cannot implement his schemes if Biden is obviously winning.

The thing with Trump is that he doesn't care if he burns this country to the ground. He's desperate to remain in power to stay out of jail and God knows what's going to happen this week if he doesn't.

He will declare himself the winner no matter what. Even if its a landslide. He will actively create massive shit storms about counting mail in votes. Even though the continued counting will be legal in most states, these ballots will BE CONFISCATED and DISAPPEAR. Have none of you been paying attention. The next step will be to nul votes in many states and ask the Republican leadership in these states to give electors to him. The end. There will be massive riots by Friday.

BTW, the attempt by Republicans in Texas to invalidate 100,000 ballots that were legally cast at drive-through polling stations has FAILED miserably.

Once Biden wins, and Dems take the Senate and House, we have to stop these MFers and their dirty tricks.

Redraw the district lines. Stop the voter suppression. Have early voting every year.

FFS, the MAJORITY in this country want Democratic policies. The Republicans are a minority and a dying breed of dinosaurs.

Damn, he always looks like a buffoon

If Trump is reelected, at least Mary Trump will have a guaranteed paid commentating position on MSNBC for the next for years.

But let's hope not. I like Mary, but Trump really needs to lose this election. He's simply unfit for the office.

And what then? Do you think Biden is going to concede? Of course not!

I really hope Biden wins! I really thought Clinton had it in 2016, I thought some how the powers that be would make sure Hillary won.

R18, don't forget the 900M he owes which comes due in the next four years. He wants to make that go away

Who gives a shit if he shrieks all night that he won. If the votes aren't in it's all meaningless. If no winner is officially declared on election night it will be fun in the days after watching Biden secure his victory and trump getting an aneurysm over it.

God, that fucking punchable shit-eating grin in that photo.

[quote]BTW, the attempt by Republicans in Texas to invalidate 100,000 ballots that were legally cast at drive-through polling stations has FAILED miserably.

Failed in the state courts. Tomorrow there's an emergency hearing in federal court with a very conservative judge.

They'll throw appeal after appeal. Brace up.

But Harris Co. should just disregard any of it, leave the lawsuits to the lawyers and just count all the votes. I hope for a big fat Biden number there. Once the number is out as a result, people will know what's what.

These are the last few paragraphs of the article R7 posted:

Trump’s blatant telegraphing of this strategy through leaks to Axios is a blessing in disguise. The public is now going to be hearing from the media about Trump’s plans over the next few days and learn more about why election night vote totals are not likely to reflect the final results if the election is close.

The strategy is not going to work. The networks and news organizations are prepared for this, and Americans have learned to discount anything the president says. Most are inoculated against his lies about voting. And assuming there are no major foul-ups in how the rest of Election Day voting goes, it is hard to imagine any legal strategy that will lead courts to order a halt to the counting of ballots that have arrived before Election Day (even if there could still be litigation over late-arriving ballots). So far, all of the Trump and Republican suits aimed at stopping the easing of voting rules during the pandemic on grounds of a risk of fraud have failed miserably, and any postelection attempt on these grounds should fail too.

The mantra for the next few days is: Count all the ballots arriving legally under state law. Ignore premature victory statements. Take a deep breath.

If he loses badly enough, will he pull a Tammy Faye Bakker and go full raccoon face on live television?

R5 But his base won't get that . They'll think the victory was stolen from him .

It would be great if Biden won Texas. But he's going to win without it.

[quote]The mantra for the next few days is: Count all the ballots arriving legally under state law. Ignore premature victory statements.

Yep, that's what I said as well.

It’ll be a sight to see Trump concede and/or admit he was wrong from prematurely taking a victory. He will be out of an echo chamber and subject to embarrassment he’ll be unable to escape from.

Who cares what the "base" think, R31. They always parrot the most idiotic things he says.

R34 Never going to happen .

[quote] God, that fucking punchable shit-eating grin in that photo.

I would immensely enjoy kicking Trump in his fat face repeatedly.

If it's obvious that he lost and he refuses to concede/leave, he will get his dream of the "biggest crowd" ever because he will unleash unholy hell on himself. You are going to see people gathering outside of the WH by the thousands and thousands to force him out. There are not enough MAGAts to protect him from what he will face if he does not leave. He'll be lucky if people don't make him and his family leave like this:

NO NO NO NOT THE PEE TAPE ANYTHING BUT THAT!