# What will happen if Trump somehow remains president? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 12, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451 "2020-11-12T19:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/142 "2020-11-18T16:47:23Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > Did you miss the parts where votes don’t matter any more? Apparently I did miss the part where (s)he did say votes still matter. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/143 "2020-11-18T16:59:16Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > And vaporized. Good work there @Senegoid & whichever Mod did the needful. > > Call it morbid curiosity but what was the post about? > > Broad strokes will do. I never saw it. I simply concluded from @Senegoid’s post that a spammer or obvious trock had appeared in there somewhere for discobot to stupidly welcome. Now @Senegoid should be able to to fill you in. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/144 "2020-11-18T18:31:45Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Call it morbid curiosity but what was the post about? > > Broad strokes will do. Spammer. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/145 "2020-11-18T19:05:59Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > > [@Velocity](#): > > > > What good would that do for the GOP? If Biden is out, then that just makes Kamala president (or president-elect). > > What good would that do the GOP? Well, it depends, but we’re not talking about the GOP, we’re talking about Trump. Trump doesn’t lose, ever, in Trumps world. And while they wouldn’t condone such an action, I am _positive_ if such a thing happened, that the GOP would immediately state that with such a ‘close’ election, it would be ‘wrong’ to put Kamala in office. After all, Trump’s term isn’t up, and even if Biden had a mandate, Kamala doesn’t. Since we have all this time (and of course disputes about the validity of the election anyway) why don’t we have a second election, or let the state legislatures decide. > Sure it’s illegal and immoral, but the GOP has already bent over backward to protect their interests, this wouldn’t be that large a step. For that matter, it would qualify for the scenario that the OP suggested, where Trump remains president through thread-bare legal shennanigans. And since it would be one of Trump’s fringe followers doing it, they’d say ‘shame, shouldn’t have happened, but this is what happens when you go against the people’s will’. And Trump would say (of course) that ‘he never intended’ for someone to do that. Exactly. It would sow chaos – and right now, whatever _doesn’t_ help a smooth. legal transition to a Biden administration is a benefit to Trump and the GOP. I wouldn’t be shocked to learn at some point in the future that Trump has asked one of his flunkies to look into this. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/146 "2020-11-18T20:51:59Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > As awful as many of them are, I can’t imagine any actual Republican elected officials getting involved in an assassination plot. > [@ParallelLines](#): > > What good would that do the GOP? Well, it depends, but we’re not talking about the GOP, we’re talking about Trump. Trump doesn’t lose, ever, in Trumps world. Assassination is not part of normal Republican politics. But Trump isn’t normal, even by Republican standards. He has talked about his supporters assassinating his political opponents; there is certainly a non-zero chance that somebody will listen to him and try it. How would Trump benefit from this? He wouldn’t. But he’s dumb enough to think he might. If Biden was assassinated. Trump would argue that he was first runner-up in the election and therefore he should replace Biden rather than Harris. It’s a ridiculous idea but Trump is dumb to think he could convince people of it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451/147 "2020-11-18T23:49:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s a ridiculous idea but Trump is dumb to think he could convince people of it. I can think of about 72 million people who are already convinced of it. Sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-trump-somehow-remains-president/925451.md?page=7)