If Harris wins, Trump will cry foul and run again in 2028

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : The hoi polloi love Trump.
71% : Trump is, in many ways, an open book -- easy to understand.
64% : In other words, it will be springtime for Trump!
58% : And assuming the election in a couple weeks is as close as we think it will be, Trump will likely claim victory once again.
57% : If Trump is campaigning, he will get lots of free attention and publicity.
51% : The first problem with this assumption -- which I previously made, as well -- is that, in the minds of Republican voters, Trump won in 2020.
49% : Trump owns the GOP.
43% : Indeed, we could again see a scenario where Trump is ahead in, say, Pennsylvania, on election night but loses the state after all ballots are counted.
38% : If Trump wins, we won't be able to say we didn't know what he would do with power.
38% : Perhaps my disappointment would deserve an asterisk; thanks to the vicissitudes of our electoral system, Trump would likely win the presidency while again losing the popular vote -- a caveat that would serve as cold comfort for those of us worried about this great American experiment.
38% : Who wants to test Trump again in 2028?
38% : The third problem is that Trump has -- forgive the term -- rigged the system.
37% : Regardless, one thing I'm willing to bet on is that Trump won't go away.
28% : But what if Trump loses?
28% : Sure, you might say, Trump has every incentive to run again (or at least, to pretend to), but there's no way Republicans would nominate a two-time loser.
25% : More recently, Trump humiliated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who dared challenge him in the 2024 GOP primary.
23% : Another reason for Trump to keep running for president past 2024?
5% : Candidate Trump is harder to pursue legally than citizen Trump, precisely because Trump and his minions would accuse the Harris administration of the very thing he is currently threatening: retribution against political adversaries.

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