With just 100 days remaining before the November election and polls showing rising public antipathy toward President Trump and republicans, GOP leaders and upstarts are jockeying for position, planning for an ensuing power struggle, reports NBC News.

Virtually every poll and predictive model forecasts Trump losing the popular vote and the Electoral College by wide margins.  The Trump drag is expected to ensure Democrats maintain control of the House, potentially gaining a significant majority in the Senate, and losing hundreds of seats in state legislatures.

The enthusiasm for republicans is so low, House GOP members are having trouble raising funds, prompting them to plead with the RNC and the Trump campaign to fund the republican National Congressional Campaign Committee–entreaties that have gone as yet unanswered.

Recently, Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the House republican Conference Chair, split with the White House in supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.  This prompted rebukes from House members more loyal to Trump, including calls for her to be ousted from her leadership position.

In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been unable to get his caucus to support a new coronavirus relief bill, while various republican Senators have publicly pitched competing–and in some cases, contrary–proposals.

It puts McConnell in an odd position:  potentially crafting a bill aimed at garnering Democratic support, while leaving the fringes of his own Party in the wind on an issue vital to American voters.

In the unlikely event that Trump should recover and secure re-election, he and as acolytes will undoubtedly look to purge the Party of those who have been disloyal, even if they sit in minority positions in both the Senate and the House.  Those loyal to Trump will be rewarded with those newly vacated leadership roles.