Donald Trump is reportedly losing sleep, battling anxiety, and obsessing over his polling numbers as the GOP nominee hopes to hang his hat on any sign that he will return to the White House.

A campaign official told Axios that Trump is asking more questions and pushing his staff to work even more to ensure that he will come out ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris come Election Day.

“Trump’s anxiety is evident in his late-night and early morning calls to aides in which he peppers them with questions on how things are going—and whether they think he’ll win,” Axios reported.

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        There is absolutely zero evidence that any of his actions will result in any jail time. There is evidence on the contrary though, that through 2 impeachments, however many court cases and legal battles, fines and fees that may not have been paid, that he’ll get away with it all.

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          not to mention the tendency of president’s either outright pardoning or at least refusing to go after previous administrations for small things like fucking watergate, or even better, war crimes.

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            It was just common because no president wanted themselves in a position of fighting court battles for poor decisions they made in office. Of course this set the standard both ways, by letting both bad decisions made by good and ill intent slide.

            And then the supreme court wanted to make it clear by setting it in ink that it’s ok.

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          Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. The judge is waiting til after the election to sentence him. I’m guessing he’ll do prison if Trump doesn’t win, some other punishment if he does.

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    New poll just dropped showing him down by 3 in Iowa(!) I hope he never gets another good night’s sleep as long as he lives.

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      Woah that’s that benchmark tracking poll everyone was hoping to see him “only” up 5

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      This is a BIG deal. Selzer was spot on in 2016, 2020, and 2022. The poll is the gold standard. Even if it’s off by 4 with Trump winning Iowa, which would be well outside Selzer’s typical margin of error, it would point to a huge herding and overestimation of other polls toward Trump in the Rust Belt. If this is spot on, this election would probably have Harris win with the biggest landslide since 1988.

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    He not anxious about the election, it’s the fact he goes to jail for all of his evil shitfuckery if he loses. No amount of microphone fellatio will alay his worry about atoning for his disgusting existence.

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    I just want to know he’s not going to be president again. We can’t know that for sure until Tuesday evening at the earliest. I’ll never forgive Republicans for putting us through this.

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        There’s a chance it’s a landslide and no legitimate argument for a recount. That won’t stop the lawsuits, but it will make every reasonable person sleep better at night.

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            Very true, but there comes a point where that no longer matters.

            Please get out and vote and get things to that point, my American friends!

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      Oh, if he loses, he is definitely putting us all through this again. He will start raising money for “Trump 2028” even as he challenges this election.

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        Honestly, I’m slightly skeptical of that. The man is old, and his health already appears to be visibly starting to degrade a little. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be dead in 4 years, but barring some medical breakthrough on reversing aging in the next couple years, I suspect he probably won’t be in good enough shape to campaign by then. Plus, it would be much more difficult for him to win the nomination in such a case. He’s got a cult following that would help, but the republicans also want to win, and if he loses this, that will be 2 elections in a row, almost a decade, that they’ll have lost the white house with him on the ticket.

        The bigger issue is that his “deny losing elections and actively court bigots while saying whatever inflammatory thing he can to stay in the news” strategy will probably get picked up by whoever replaces him.

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          Republicans didn’t even want him running now in 2024, but his cult are fanatics and enough of them that unless they start unified behind an alternate candidate he’ll keep being where he is. During the R primaries this fact was talked about a lot. All the other candidates together had enough to beat him but none of them were willing to be behind another candidate. All the losers endorsing Trump instead of others really didn’t help.

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          He has to start running for 2028 right away if he loses in 2024, because his DJT stock will be in the toilet once his foreign investors can’t get the ROI they were expecting to bribe a US President, and grifting campaign funds is the only avenue left to maintain his lifestyle.

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        I wouldn’t call that definite by any stretch. Not because he wouldn’t, but because honestly I feel like there’s a pretty decent chance he drops dead between now and then.

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    The dumbass doesn’t know he’s being played by his aides and their republican masters. He’s just their tool.