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The poll numbers of Republican nominee Donald Trump have been in free fall since video emerged of him boasting fame allowed him to grope and kiss women without permission. A presidential debate that featured history-making levels of ugliness only made things worse.

Polls show Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leading Trump by between four and 12 percentage points. Bookmakers are putting his chances of winning at only 15.9 per cent. Most critically, key states like Arizona are poised to go Democratic for the first time in 20 years.

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But when the results are in, Clinton is proclaiming victory and Trump’s Secret Service detail takes off, can the Republican nominee just roll up the Make America Great Again banners and return to his pre-politics life? Below, a few guesses about what The Donald might be doing on Nov. 9, 2016.

Head of a post-election media network

Since Trump’s candidacy began in June 2015, there has been a persistent rumour it’s all merely an extended publicity stunt to raise his profile. (As indeed, seemed to be the modus operandi of Trump’s bid for the 2000 Reform Party nomination.) On Monday, suspicions seemed to be confirmed when the Financial Times reported Jared Kushner, husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, had been approaching investment banks to suss out a possible Trump media network. As for the viability of such a venture, however, the near-immediate collapse of the Sarah Palin Channel is an appropriately cautionary tale on the perils of turning a political upswell into a long-term reservoir of TV viewers. Trump’s prior TV gig, meanwhile, is already gone. NBC has announced that the next season of Celebrity Apprentice will be hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.