Well, /someone/ had an explicit plan for using a delay of the congressional certification to overturn the results:
'Giuliani tells Tuberville that McConnell wants to narrow the objections to just three states and explains that the Trump team wants to object to 10. “So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today.”'
It's not a huge leap to imagine a deadlock on certification leading to Trump declaring he'd just hold on to the presidency. That's basically been the whole game plan for months.
Constitutionally he can’t do that though, since it requires his term to end at noon on January 20th. If there was a deadlock on certification Trump would still leave office, and we’d probably have an emergency constitutional convention to pass a amendment to fix this bug.
You think Trump cares about the constitution? He cares about Trump. We just saw over a hundred Republican congressmen vote against the results of a fair election in favor of Trump for Trump's sake. The constitution is a rhetorical tool at best for these people.
'Giuliani tells Tuberville that McConnell wants to narrow the objections to just three states and explains that the Trump team wants to object to 10. “So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today.”'
https://thedispatch.com/p/giuliani-to-senator-try-to-just-sl...
It's not a huge leap to imagine a deadlock on certification leading to Trump declaring he'd just hold on to the presidency. That's basically been the whole game plan for months.