Democrats Run War Games Where They Predict They’ll Push For Secession And Civil War If Trump Wins. John Podesta played the role of Biden along with many other high ranking officials, professors, and former politicians in a war game around the November 2020 election. In the games every scenario predicted street clashes and rioting. Only one scenario had Trump winning but it was the most alarming. In the event Trump actually won the Democrats and never trumpers were shocked that John Podesta as Joe Biden refused to concede. He states that Democrats would not let him concede this election and therefore called on swing states to defy the vote and send in pro Biden electors to the electoral college and called on the west coast states to secede unless they got reforms they wanted