Will Trump gracefully and respectfully concede on election night?

[Liberal_in_LA]

it's customary for the winner to wait for the non-winner to concede before speech.. correct?

[saltpoint]

2. I'm not putting a lot of money on it, no.

Trump's conduct to date has not suggested a respectful observance of protocol.

[annabanana]

3. I cannot imagine it.

I wonder how far from behind he will sue?

2 points?

5 points?

[kevink077]

4. He will say it's rigged

And right wing hate blogs will be full of complete meltdowns. Get the popcorn stocked up.

[Oldem]

5. Has he yet done anything gracefully?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I doubt it.

I expect that at some point that evening he will have an on-air melt-down that will mark Karl Rove in 2012 look like calm and reasoned discourse.

[Sophiegirl]

7. No

He will never admit defeat. It is not in his nature to lose.

[niyad]

8. "we will have to see" or something along those lines. no, he will not concede.

the only question is whether he will openly call for armed rebellion.

[GP6971]

9. Concede??

He doesn't know the meaning of the word.

[VMA131Marine]

10. No way!

If he gives a concession speech, it will be a laundry list of the people and groups he will blame for losing.

[napi21]

11. ABSOLUTELY NOT! I've been thinking about that, and I can hear the talking heads saying

"No concession speech from Mr. Trump, and it been THREE DAYS since the election!"

[spanone]

12. he'll have his law suits filed the next morning

[Rex]

13. Trump?

[Siwsan]

14. He will pull out the Necronomicon and summon the Army of Darkness

(My brother worked on that film, so it gives me great joy to reference it.)

[rusty quoin]

27. The army of darkness...

All the fat guys with guns who support him. Your brother can do this as a comedy.

[Hoyt]

15. No way. He'll scorch the country.

[upaloopa]

16. No, he will lose to a woman

He will sink into oblivion

[chelsea0011]

17. Hell, no.

[lindysalsagal]

18. No, but the RNC and GOP will make statements to calm things down

because it's not in their interest to appear to be fully unhinged, when his poll numbers will have tanked a full month beforehand.

Whatever papers need to be filed to close the books and offices and payrolls will be done by his staff. His lawyers will try to talk him off the cliff, but he'll say he's suing. A court or 2 will dismiss it, and he'll wander away, mumbling to himself, with a few morons waving useless signs in the background.....The press will stop following him, and we'll move on to the holidays and whatever next terrorist/gun/hurricane occupies the airwaves....

[First Speaker]

25. Trump and his supporters won't give a damn what the GOP establishment says...

...if this year has shown anything, it's that there is no GOP "establishment". They are as weak as straw. Trump is the GOP base's beating heart, and what he says will be what matters to the Mad Max wing of the party. If Trump genuinely goes full There-Was-A-Plot-To-Steal-The-Presidency-From-Me, there almost certainly will be anarchy, bloodshed, or both. I'm afraid that after the election, the real crisis will be just beginning...

[First Speaker]

45. I hope so, and even expect so...

...but there are a *lot* of crazy people out there. If Trump encourages them...well, it could get messy. Does anyone think he's incapable of that level of irresponsibility? I'm just glad that a Dem is President, and particularly that Obama is president. If anyone can deal with any post-election craziness, he can.

[grubbs]

19. If he calls for rebellion

Can I shoot him? Please? Just this once? In his stupid fat face?

[unblock]

20. Not just no, but F*CK no

[donco]

21. He might if we

send him off with a song.LIKE THIS ONE.

[Hamlette]

22. Yes. He will concede.

He'll say it was the GOP and media that stacked the deck and in a fair fight it wouldn't have even been close. But if she wins as Nate is predicting now? By 5% or more and 100 electoral vote margin. Everyone but the 27% would make him out to be nuts. Just like before.

[GeorgeGist]

23. No. And Hell No.

[lpbk2713]

24. Grace and respect don't abide in him.

He will always be a self absorbed horse's ass.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Nope

I fully expect him to say that anyone who didn't vote for him should go fuck themselves.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Of course not. Clinton's people need to plan for these scenarios.

They need to plan for him not conceding, which I expect.

They need to plan for him saying everything was rigged.

They need to plan for him directly inciting riots or violence which I wouldn't put it past him at all.

They need to decide how long to give him from when the race is called, and, unfortunately, word the speech carefully to try and defuse things.

[Agnosticsherbet]

30. I woul not be surprised if he declared an administrtion in exile and moved to Russia.

form which he called his followers to use their 2nd amendment option.

[Golden Raisin]

31. Highly doubtful.

He's been carefully laying that groundwork for quite some time with his, "the election is rigged" trope. I'm more concerned that his rabble-rousing to the lowest common denominator will produce both disruptive, self-appointed "monitors" at polling places and possibly violence/mischief in the streets if he loses. I sincerely hope I'm wrong but I am no longer young and have seen and heard things in this presidential election that are scarily unprecedented in my lifetime.

[DetlefK]

33. Here's a summary of his post-election strategy:

He will talk to his supporters only, not to journalists.

He will tell them how great they are and how great he is.

He will tell them to hold out until every last vote is counted and every last voter-fraud has been revealed.

You know, people have told him this and that and people have seen this and that and there were reports of voter-fraud (believe me) but nobody is reporting on that because mainstream-media.

[killbotfactory]

34. He will call the elections fraudulent and call for his supporters to take action.

There is a possibility of violence.

[tinrobot]

35. He'll concede, but not gracefully.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. No.

He will keep yammering until they stop pointing television cameras at him.

[milestogo]

37. He will fly into a rage and say the election was rigged

and that Hillary should be put in jail.

[Doc_Technical]

38. This discussion reminds me of this scene

[Rincewind]

39. Short answer : no.

Longer answer : Fuck no. Trump will never admit he ever lost at anything.

[MFM008]

40. NO

Maggot =💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

[Lee-Lee]

41. Hell no

It's will be all the system was rigged, the media set me up, we were hacked, crooked Hillary isn't a legitimate winner...

[malaise]

42. He should concede

NOW

[no_hypocrisy]

43. You kidding? His lawyer has the first lawsuit already drafted, ready to file.

[Cakes488]

44. It's rigged....It's rigged...it's fixed......AMERICA PRESSES MUTE AND CHANGES THE CHANNEL