Former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth spells out possible ways President Trump might seek to remain in the White House, even if he loses the November election, in Friday’s online edition of Newsweek.

The Democrat from Colorado who worked in the Clinton administration after leaving the Senate ponders Trump suppressing voters who might align against him or, failing that, try to invalidate the election using his emergency powers as president.

“Something like the following scenario is not just possible but increasingly probable because it is clear Trump will do anything to avoid the moniker he hates more than any other: ‘loser,’ ” Wirth writes in the piece co-authored the opinion article with Tom Rogers, an editor-at-large for Newsweek and the founder of CNBC who helped establish MSNBC.

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Wirth explains:

“For Trump, there are two broad pathways to maintaining power. First, we can already see very clearly a strategy designed to suppress voter turnout with the purging of registration rolls of large numbers of mostly urban voters; efforts to suppress mail-in ballots, which are more necessary than ever, given COVID-19; a re-election apparatus that is training 50,000 poll watchers for the purpose of challenging citizens’ right to vote on Election Day; and significant efforts to make in-person voting in urban areas as cumbersome as possible in order to have long lines that discourage people from exercising their voting rights.”

Wirth served as a senator from Colorado from 1987 to 1993, following Gary Hart and was succeeded by Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

“We cannot let ourselves believe that this is a far-fetched scenario,” the Newsweek piece states. “We have just seen Trump threaten to invoke emergency powers under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to call up the U.S. military against domestic protesters.”