Trump could’ve invoked insurrection act. He should’ve pushed hard for audits, took custody of machines and ballots when he was still in office.
He's not Julius Caesar. I would have walked away too. It's not worth destroying the American Republic, while we still have one. The Democratic Party might end up destroying it, but that's on them. I wouldn't want to go into history book as the dictator who destroyed the American Republic.
After the 2016 cheating, he should have been alerted to the fact that they will go to any lengths to win. The fact that Democrat field was a disaster and that Biden almost never went out campaigning in 2016, stayed in his basement, and couldn’t attract flies if he were a sugar lump should have been loud tip-offs to imminent cheating. Then there was the Soros and Zuckerberg funding of elections around the country, especially in targeted swing areas. And Biden’s senile comment about having assembled the best election-theft machine ever.
What could have been done differently? Could Trump’s ground teams have worked with the election boards in the various states? Worked to get their own Secretaries of State hired (the way Soros did)? Combatting the fraud should have started right after the 2016 election from the strength of a sitting POTUS. Once the 2020 campaign swung into high gear, it was WAY too late to address these problems. Also, the Trump campaign probably should have been anticipating the key Dem theft tactic of hiding under cover of COVID to implement mass mail-in voting. Maybe that could have been headed off in the courts around March and April 2020.
Sure, it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking. But I think there was BIG failure of Trump’s team to ANTICIPATE and defend against the planned Dem vile (and frequently outright illegal) strategy and tactics.