Heads we win, tails you lose. At least if that happens there won’t be any Republican Party to give false hope any more. Don’t think there isn’t room for them in that spare drawer where you keep the loose nuts and bolts, and the Whig Party.
If they do this, and all his supporters wrote in his name, he would win IN AN HONEST election.
But in our banana republic, they would refuse to count all those write-ins.