Trump is reportedly taking Down Names as Republicans Begin Jumping Ship. He's also reportedly contemplating retribution should he lose and his party blame him for the lost. This part in poarticular stands out:
Among Republican operatives, there has been an expectation that Trump’s polling deficit with Biden would close as the election neared. That tightening has not happened as quickly as they’d hoped, and among the explanations for it are the president’s combustible debate performance, his personal infection with a virus he has downplayed, and the fact that he’s been outspent on the airwaves.
There’s also a growing consensus among the GOP consulting class that Trump has lost some of the political instincts that made him both unorthodox and effective in 2016. Back then, Trump closed the campaign by largely keeping to script, doing rallies, and posting only mundane tweets. This go-around, he’s embraced wilder conspiracies—such as the Osama bin Laden raid being staged—and put up more Facebook ads attacking Hillary Clinton than going after Biden on trade.
It seems the Trump Campaign is struggling to adapt a 2020 strategy and is instead mimicking their 2016 one, partly due to Trump going off script and attacking his opponents he perceives should be "locked up". Yeah, this ship is sinking and racing to the port in hopes of a miracle revival. That is probably not going to happen this time.
