Immediately after the third presidential debate concluded, I said to my husband, "The lead story will be that Trump won't accept the election results if he loses". Sure enough, as Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith wrapped up the network's coverage of the debate, he said just that. But I'm not going to get bogged down with that nonsense. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't matter whether Trump accepts the election results or not. If he loses and decides not to accept the results, then okay, he won't accept them. Nothing changes. Hillary will still be the President-elect. There will still be a transference of power. That's the beauty of the American system of government.
The media know this full-well. But if you Google "Trump won't accept the election results" you'll get over 50,000,000 results, which suggests to me that lots of people actually think that if Trump declares "I don't accept the results" after the election, the American political system will grind to a screeching halt. It won't. It didn't when Al Gore refused to accept the results of his loss (he actually retracted his concession speech). It didn't in 2004 when Sen. John Kerry pledged to send lawyers around the country
