Makes you wonder why they didn't allow him to be impeached so they could get Pence to lead
The backlash would have caused every one of them to lose their next election.
The worst would be that they wouldn't bother to vote. No way somebody that in love with Trump would vote for a democrat anyway. Once the 24 hour news cycle passes, it would be a distant memory later in the year come the election.
You'd also have people in the 'sensible centre' look and see the republicans are redeemable and professional. Intolerant of corruption and guided by a rule of law. Anyone near the centre just sees Trumps BS, rants and lies spread all over the Twitterverse and every other medium he can rant at. Now we have Trump actively trying to suppress mail voting citing a BS claim of fraud when everyone with a brain knows it's because he believes he'll lose. The fraud is just a cover
When we observe foreign elections especially in developing countries we always see the bastard authoritarian dictator does their darnedest to rig it or outright cheat it and the results are always in dispute or not trusted and clearly against the will of the people
Imagine the USA now being among those that we look at and view its electoral process as among them.