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elocs

(22,596 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 03:38 PM Jul 2019

2020 will be interesting because neither side will accept the election results

if their candidate loses.
If the Democratic candidate loses, we will claim it was because of the Russian interference, voter suppression, and flat out Republican cheating. All which are likely but will we ever point any fingers at an on the Left who either chose not to vote or voted 3rd party?

If Trump loses, he will claim there was massive voter fraud--which he did last time even though he won the electoral vote, which is, afterall, how we elect our presidents. He will incite his followers to riot and call for the Supreme Court to declare the election invalid.
I wonder what Roberts would do then?

Just imagine the evil and mischief a defeated Trump would do in his final weeks in office. He will still have his finger on the nuclear trigger.

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2020 will be interesting because neither side will accept the election results (Original Post) elocs Jul 2019 OP
He will use the occasion customerserviceguy Jul 2019 #1
Depends what you mean by "not accept." Igel Jul 2019 #2
"Not accept" as in Trump inciting his followers to riot if he does not win, elocs Jul 2019 #5
We should not have accepted 2016 edhopper Jul 2019 #3
Absolutely! I know those people on the Left in Wisconsin elocs Jul 2019 #4
There's no evidence of voter fraud but there's evidence Trump clan is CHEATING RIGHT NOW uponit7771 Jul 2019 #6
Putin is probably shanti Jul 2019 #7

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
1. He will use the occasion
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 03:53 PM
Jul 2019

to pardon as many cronies as possible, and then try to tear the country in two. He'd like to be the Supreme Leader of the Confederate States of America 2.0, where he'd win by a landslide, and there wouldn't be that pesky 22nd Amendment.

Igel

(35,337 posts)
2. Depends what you mean by "not accept."
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 04:19 PM
Jul 2019

A lot of people didn't accept the results of the 2000 election, or the 2016 election.

"But nobody suspected that President Obama would refuse to leave office," you might object. But you'd be wrong. There were such--and others who told them, "That's crazy talk." (And those, of course, were right.)

elocs

(22,596 posts)
5. "Not accept" as in Trump inciting his followers to riot if he does not win,
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 05:56 PM
Jul 2019

and the Left doing more than just talk about it. Because if all you do when you claim you don't accept results is talk about it, then you accepted them.

edhopper

(33,604 posts)
3. We should not have accepted 2016
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 04:25 PM
Jul 2019

it was stolen and they are working hard to steal 2020.

There is a right and wrong side here.

elocs

(22,596 posts)
4. Absolutely! I know those people on the Left in Wisconsin
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 05:52 PM
Jul 2019

who in the tens of thousands, greater than Trump's victory margin here, either chose not to vote because they either bought the Big Lie that there was no difference between the candidates or who wanted to teach us a lesson for not nominating Bernie, or those who voted for a 3rd party candidate rather than Clinton bear no responsibility for Trump winning this state.

We've got all of the excuses for a loss ready and waiting and none of them involve our own personal choices.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
7. Putin is probably
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 06:06 PM
Jul 2019

jumping with glee at our predicament. We know what Roberts would do, because it's been done before.

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