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Trailing in the polls and with little time left to change the trajectory or closing themes of the presidential race, President Donald Trump has spent the final days of the campaign complaining that the coronavirus crisis is getting too much coverage - and openly musing about losing.
Trump has publicly lamented about what a loss would mean, spoken longingly of riding off into the sunset and made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud could cost him the election. He has sarcastically threatened to fire state officials if he doesn't win and excoriated his rival Joe Biden as someone it would be particularly embarrassing to lose to.
"If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics," Trump said at an Oct. 17 campaign rally in Janesville, Wis. "If I lose, what do I do? I'd rather run against somebody who's extraordinarily talented, at least, this way I can go and lead my life."
The president, who said at the same rally that "we're not going to lose, we're going to win," has certainly not abandoned his showman's approach to the campaign trail. But his unscripted remarks bemoaning a potential loss - and preemptively explaining why he might suffer one - offer a window into his mind-set as he barnstorms the country in an attempt to keep himself from becoming the one thing he so derisively despises: a loser.
Trump has told rallygoers he had the presidential race won until the pandemic hit, and he has accused media outlets of focusing on the ongoing health crisis to hurt him politically.
https://www.chron.com/news/article/As-Election-Day-nears-Trump-ponders-the-prospect-15684509.php
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Good gawd. Even in losing, he so fucking obnoxious and self-absorbed. Go away, Donald.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,367 posts)durablend
(7,465 posts)"FUCK YOU, AMERICA!"
See if I'm right.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)YOU are the worst candidate in history.
riversedge
(70,306 posts)MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)Why is he the one Trump has been obsessed with and worried about for the better part of the last two years?
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics
In the movie Hair, Berger tells Steve, See, that's just what my other problem is, man.... you're full of shit.