He has to move. He is despised here. He may be able to make a life on the ranch, but he seriously couldnt get elected here even with the full Morgan Church behind him.
Often the corrupt ones stay in DC and go to work as lobbyists which are the intermediaries of the pay to play corruption.
I suspect he won’t be waiting to fight another day. He will subsist well on residuals of his campaign war chest, then go to work in the pay to play arena. That has been the course for decades but with this POTUS, he may not find that works out as expected. Things are changing in a major way.