or
2. That the GOP loses its majority in the House of Representatives.
Option #1 is looking less and less likely as the weeks roll on. Option #2 is looking more so.
I strongly encourage you to read the following article, which examines these issues under the microscope of clear-headed conservative thinking. (Also equal-opportunity candidate bashing, just to be clear.)
“It’s Hillary or Trump–What’s a Conservative Supposed to Do?
by David Bahnsen, The Bahnsen Viewpoint, June 29, 2016.
And then, if you are in a state that Clinton pretty much has tied up, and you think you’ll throw up in the voting booth if you pull the lever next to her name, just leave that lever alone. (I’m not planning to do that, as I have said repeatedly, most recently here. But I understand that flesh and blood can take only so much.) Then vote for conservative candidates down the rest of the list. If you are in a state that has any chance at all of going for Trump, though, you need to vote in such a way that you are helping to prevent both of the absolutely unacceptable options listed above. That means voting a split ticket: Clinton for President, conservative (almost certainly Republicans) for everyone else. People aren’t used to split-ticket voting, though, which is why Paul Ryan is worried about option #2.
As I often exhort myself (and believe me, I need to do this more often than I’d like to admit): “Be a grownup.” There are no perfect or even palatable options available to us in this train wreck of an election. We can’t just disengage. We can’t blindly vote on the side of our party. We must choose, with our eyes wide open.