I still don't understand this bullshit of Trump if he loses he won't concede....
How is that going to play out?
Best case scenario - after some blustering, Trump concedes, hours after the result shows he's been soundly beaten, because he needs time to sulk like a child. He reads a prepared statement by his handlers, and doesn't act like an idiot. He notes the tradition we have here of a peaceful transition of power and wishes President-elect Clinton well after a hard-fought campaign.
Most-likely scenario - Trump delays for a few hours, until his handlers (and most likely Ivanka, who at least seems intelligent and level-headed) finally convince him that he's lost and has to accept gracefully. He'll give a speech in which he says stuff that has a double-meaning, red meat to his supporters. But eventually he will say that the result is to be respected, and hopes President-elect Clinton will be a "strong" leader like he would've been, and says some crap about the number of votes he got shows that his people have a voice, blah blah.
Worst-case scenario - He refuses to concede to her after it shows that he has clearly lost, likely around 11pm or 12am Eastern Time. When he does finally emerge, he gives a speech to his supporters in which he moans and groans, and the "red meat" he throws to them is actually pretty overt, in which he alleges that vote tampering happened, the result is false, and encourages people to protest it. This could cause demonstrations, maybe even a few riots. Trump will say "I told you so," and use it as proof that "law and order" in this country has failed. He will try and contest the election result by asking for a full recount, and maybe even say "We're taking this to the Supreme Court!"
As for the whole "Gore didn't concede in 2000!" thing that his supporters are saying on Facebook and Breitbart...actually, Gore did concede. He just retracted it later when it became clear that Florida was up in the air. And the whole snafu that happened afterwards, which did actually go to the Supreme Court, was well-handled by the Republicans and poorly-handled by Democrats.
If Gore had actually bothered to win his home state of Tennessee, he wouldn't have needed Florida.
If Gore's team had not limited the scope of the recount to so few counties, he would've won Florida.
Regardless of the fact that the whole Florida situation in 2000 seemed rigged, it was avoidable. But I agree with what one of Bush's advisors said in a CNN documentary last year. The people who "voted" in Florida that day elected George W. Bush. The people who
intended to vote that day elected Al Gore.
And Gore eventually conceded. Again.
