During the primaries, Trump said he wouldn't give a concession speech if he lost

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published 9 November 2016

If we've learned anything about Donald Trump this election season, it's that he doesn't take kindly to losing. So how would the Republican presidential nominee respond if the election didn't go his way? For clues, we can go back to a speech Trump gave in Maryland six months ago.

By this point in the election, the field for the Republican presidential nomination had dwindled from 17 candidates to three. And in April, Trump told his Maryland supporters he didn't think too highly of his former opponents' concession speeches. What was the point, he asked, in graciously conceding after grilling each other in public for months? No, Trump couldn't picture himself doing it.

"I'm not sure you're ever going to see me there," he said. "I don't think I'm going to lose, but if I do, I don't think you're ever going to see me again, folks. I think I'll go to Turnberry and play golf or something."

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