What if?
gammanu95
My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
Prayers for a fast and full recovery to the First Family and the other public servants ill with COVID-19. But suppose that the President does not recover, and is unable to continue campaigning for his re-election? What should the RNC do?
Should Pence move up to lead the ticket and choose a new running mate? Who?
Should Pence remain VP and new POTUS candidate be chosen? Who?
Should they scrap this ticket entirely and choose new candidates? Who would be even more certain than Trump/Pence to defeat Harris/Biden in the general election?
Should Pence move up to lead the ticket and choose a new running mate? Who?
Should Pence remain VP and new POTUS candidate be chosen? Who?
Should they scrap this ticket entirely and choose new candidates? Who would be even more certain than Trump/Pence to defeat Harris/Biden in the general election?
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Unless President Trump dies or is secretly incapacitated before November 3rd, any change to the ticket is unlikely.
If President Trump were to take a turn for the worse, I have no predictions other than to say we will find out a lot about internal politics at the RNC. There would be no time for involvement of citizens throughout the country, and absolutely anything could happen.
Chosen by whom ? Under what authority ?
The people have selected Trump/Pence. I shudder to think that some self-appointed power brokers could step in and overturn that. If that happens, the Constitution no longer matters.
I can imagine a Pence led ticket with a VP candidate that strongly appeals to Trump’s base might hold on to enough voters enthused by Trump while siphoning enough voters from Biden who lean right but strongly disapprove of Trump. I guess it would depend on how Pence presents himself and is viewed without Trump’s shadow & coattails.
What is the basis for this statement? The 25th Amendment covers who takes the office if the president dies or is incapacitated. It does cover replacement of presidential candidates. There may be some election law that covers the issue, but I'm not aware of it.
If Trump does die before the election, could we still vote for him? And if he wins, although dead, does the 25th Amendment take over then?
Yeah, we need an edit button.
Boris Johnson’s poll numbers jumped when he had CoVid. It was a sympathy thing.
As long as Trump is in the hospital, Biden and his allies in the media risk blowback if they trash Trump. Trashing Trump is pretty much their only tactic.
If Trump wasn’t sick, he couldn’t go silent in the final weeks of the campaign. Now, he has the perfect excuse. Maybe the press will pay a little scrutiny to Joe and Hunter to fill the silence.
Actually the original intent of the Constitution was for the Electors to vote their conscience. But state laws and Supreme Court decisions make the electors decision more of a predetermined obligation.
#NoEditsLife
That's a good one. You've got potential in comedy.
It appears that there are now more folks from the president’s close republican circle testing positive. This could make for a very odd November.
Real poor taste.
might not have been the surprise you hoped for but a surprise all the same
your candidate would be all over it if the shoe was on the other foot
I can hear his voice saying
"I like candidates that aren't weak and come down with the chinky flu"
It would be even worse if that person were a head of state.
How does it feel to be like someone you claim to despise?
But it's good taste when he says I like war hero's that havent been captured
So what does that say about your behavior? Acting gleeful about the President and 3 Republican Senators contracting a potentially fatal disease.
You better hope that karma isn't half the bitch you are.
As for John McCain, personally, I voted for John McCain when he ran for the House of Representatives. I didn't vote for him as a Senator a single time, nor as a Presidential candidate. He supported too many liberal causes.
But he served our country proudly. And that record should never be mocked.
But speaking of mocking John McCain, what do you think about Obama and his campaign mocking John McCain during the 2008 election?
They were criticizing him for being computer illiterate because he used an aide to compose emails.
The reason he used an aide is because his shoulders caused him great pain whenever he tried to type.
They were injured when he was hung by his hands for weeks on end in a Vietnamese POW camp.
This is simply a recitation of facts.
I don’t know that this is possible. The states can’t change the ballots in time for Election Day. People have already voted. The “what if” scenario is unprecedented and I haven’t seen where there’s a rule to say what will happen. They need to keep trump and Biden alive for another month or we could have a mess “the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before” to quote my favorite orange president.