It’s clear Trump picked Vance to counter Harris, so if she’s no longer the VP side of the ticket, Vance is literally pointless. Ohio was going to vote Trump regardless, Vance doesn’t bring any added votes that way.
He needs to wait and see who Harris picks as V.P. though.
According to Schumer, he only has 10 days to choose a replacement, which would elapse before the Dem convention.
That deadline is for Ohio ballot access, pretty sure they’d bend the rules for Trump.
Yep, pretty much every time we’ve assumed the rules are black and white, trump finds and exploits the grey. He’s pretty skilled there, in a slimeball sort of way.
My Pillow Guy for VP. C’mon it would be so much fun!
Hell yeah, that would be hilarious. Mike Lindell, the Jesse Ventura we have at home.
I feel like that’s kind of harsh, to you know, the former governor. What has Lindell accomplished other than quitting crack a couple times
And Jesse might have some legit ailments from the military. He’s gone a bit cuckoo, but can still remain coherent.
If you’re from MN they’re both at home!
Plot twist, that’s who Trump was actually trying to get but there was a misunderstanding when he asked for “that guy with the fucking cushions”.
“i said fucking cushions, not cushion fucker!”
Couch-fucker to That Pillow Fucker… Yes i like this timeline
Right up until he gets elected… Then it’s not as funny anymore…
They need a replacement alright, but not just at the bottom of the ticket.
Replacing Vance now would also undermine any argument they might make about switching the names on ballots for the Democrats. Those aren’t valid, anyway–Biden wasn’t the official nominee until the convention says so; nothing was locked in–but they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.
never interrupt the enemy when he’s making a mistake
they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.
I think you’re over-estimating their commitment to logic, consistency or reality.
They don’t, but it also has to sink in with the general public. When both sides are being switched out, there’s a very obvious argument against the claim.
That makes sense but MAGA has always leaned hard on the “but when I do it, it’s OK” rhetoric.
Biden wasn’t the official nominee until the convention
Even then, nothing prohibits him (or Vance, realistically) from resigning.
This is mostly just funny to watch.
There is a legal point where states won’t accept changes to the ballots. Also a practical one where there isn’t time to print new ones. Neither point has passed, of course, but Trump was trying to imply it was.
If Biden died on November 4th, he’d remain on the ballot the next day and - if he won the majority of the EC - Harris would be the presumptive President Elect on November 6th. If Vance resigned as VP, we’d see the same results under a Trump win. We have a clear order of succession and mechanisms for appointing replacements to downticket slots like VP per the 25th amendment.
The absolute worst case scenario is that Trump would force Vance to resign and then be stuck with a House/Senate picking his VP for him. But since he’s not even the President-Elect at the moment I don’t think that’s actually an issue.
Nope he made his bed, time to lie in it.
Or he could sleep on the couch…
Sticky.
Is it because of all the couch fuckin’?
Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, denied the reports in a statement to Newsweek on Tuesday, "President Trump is thrilled with the choice he made with Senator Vance, and they are the perfect team to take back the White House. And any reporting to the contrary is nothing but ridiculous fake news from either nonexistent sources or individuals who have no idea what’s going on.
Saving this quote for when Trump replaces Vance.
that cheung dude is hilarious. it’s like exactly what trump would say except at twice the writing proficiency. so 6th grade level instead of 3rd grade
So, now that JD has provided contacts to the Silicon Valley billionaires and proven to be an iron ball on Trumps feet, he can be replaced?
I wonder how much dirty laundry he culd wash from all the stuff he has already seen inside the campaign…
Empty G 4VP
Hey, with all this talk of unity and how the Democrats should be picking a Republican to run on some kind of centrist wet-dream ticket, how about the “liberal media” starts beating the drum for donnie to kick JD off the ticket and add someone like AOC to the ticket?
You know: for “unity”. For the tone - the Republicans should be utterly capitulating to the Democratic Party.
Why does no one in the corporate media ever suggest it is the Republican Party that should cave to the leftist majority in this country, but instead, the reverse is something that comes up. All. The. Time.
So I’m hearing that Harris’ VP announcement will be in 11 days.
Democratic convention is 8/19 to 8/22.
I expect the announcement on or just before the 19th. So 20-21 days.
Floor speech from the VP candidate on the 21st. Harris on the 22nd.
Fair enough. At least 11 days. I’d be very surprised if it were before that.
I just headed over to /r/conservative to skim the posts.
I’ll admit that it was a very shallow glance at what they’re thinking but it really doesn’t look like they’re as upset with Vance as liberals like to think they are.
They’re not as smug as they were a few weeks ago but they’re still pretty comfortable with their poll numbers.
lol i’m guessing you haven’t spent much time in /r/conservative. which i don’t blame you for
but the reason they don’t express dissatisfaction with anything going on in conservativeland is because you’ll get banned if you do
…and the same people who call the Democratic Party “chaotic” for replacing Biden with Kamala will have no problem shifting gears to adore whatever wretched troll they scrounge up to replace Vance.
Can’t wait for Trump to come out and say his campaign should be reimbursed for all dumbass merch they had made as well. What a clownshow.
Kamala should sue RNC for “undermining the will of the people” in every fucking state. Litigate that shit until the last second before polls close
No, that’d almost certainly be a tactical mistake since it’d lend enough credibility to the claim to get those cases to the Supreme Court and then they’d just rule in favor of Trump in all circumstances… it’d be hard to overrule the court in a situation like that with a deadline for picking an executive and the Supreme Court has shown it’s now gloves off crazy mode… no more “we’re independent jurists”.
