@musiclady, I just can't get past his enormous ego ( ) to believe that he would allow himself to be a "loser" in order to do something for someone else. I just don't see it.
Unless he, in his own distorted, egotistical mind, is thinking that this was his plan and that he succeeded in doing what he intended to do.
Maybe it's cynical, but if, since he's a Democrat who supported Obama and raved about Hillary, his intention was to wipe out a tremendous field of Republicans from whom we could have chosen a capable conservative nominee, and to help Hillary win, then he could see this as "winning."
Not claiming to know that, but understanding his warped psyche, it's not out of the realm of possibility, IMO.....