Ballot box stuffing allegations by Democrats aside, Trump did not know that Romney was not going to win the election until the night of the election.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Regarding allegations of ballot box stuffing in the Obama / Romney contest, I’ve always been surprised that Romney did not challenge the vote count. After all, Bush 43 and Gore took problems with Florida vote count to Supreme Court.
And since Romney was seemingly eager to lose the election imo, I surmise that he was following a script given to him by the corrupt Washington cartel.
Ohio made the issue of Florida of no value