All this makes it much more imperative that the Party "win" the election. The battleground states are trending Trump but if they poll at 70% for Trump the Party will garner 60% of the vote in those states even if they have to report more votes than inhabitants and no one who can do something about it will do more than say like a good Republican "well, we lost, better luck next time."
There will be no next time. The last viable next time was 2016 and Trump won that because the Party people could not imagine that he would get more than a third of the real votes so they weren't set up to manufacture enough votes in the right places.
Yep.