Hypothetical scenario: Late October, and it becomes apparent that Trump is going to lose. Do many republican politicians who are still endorsing Trump at that time suddenly jump ship, hoping to save their careers? Calculating that it will sooner or later become the consensus of the vast majority of Americans that Trump truly was a lying, racist, misogynist, fascist, thin-skinned, vengeful, war-loving (his own words) ignoramus who would’ve been an extremely dangerous president, and not wanting to be seen as having blindly supported him?