Gosh, I'm not sure I see Harris winning an election against Trump. I think they need a whole new ticket.
Gosh, I'm not sure I see Harris winning an election against Trump. I think they need a whole new ticket.
no - He could easily say he will no longer seek re election. It would make him a "lame duck" but he would not have to give up the top job until he is voted out.
that seems ,erm, wishful thinking. Harris isn't well liked according to polling and I doubt the incumbency is worth much against Trump. He isn't your usual politician. He is an authoritarian, proto fascist, cult leader who will say and do anything to get (and keep) power. The usual rules don't apply.
No, President Johnson didn't stand for re-election in 1968, but stayed on until the end of his term. One wonders how the world would be had he stood and won.
He'd have probably died in office. He died 2 days after the term following his first full term finished, but the demands of the job could well have accelerated his decline. As for how the world would be, I doubt much will have changed given he oversaw the Vietnam War which was still ongoing under Nixon and was unpopular even before Nixon took office.
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100%. It is a cult.
I. Have. No. Words...Meanwhile, they say Trump supporters say putting on their own ear bandages is a sign of solidarity with him, and while for some that maybe the case, this absolutely smacks of cult-like behaviour:
Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump
Several members of the RNC's Arizona delegation were spotted helping Trump 'set a new fashion statement'.
I'd say that Johnson would beat Nixon and continue with his reforming agenda. With no Nixon, there's no Watergate and alsorts of changes in political fortunes would have arisen. Maybe no Reagan and no trickle down economics.
On a more serious point linked to this I wouldn't be surprised if Trump getting in and going ahead with Project 2025 leads to one of the largest emigration waves in history: even only 1% of the population leaving in the first year would be over 3 million citizens, but more than 10 million wouldn't be out of the question, mostly to Canada and Mexico, but Europe will also I expect receive some.
Makes me wonder if they would all have shot themselves had the assassination succeeded.
He wasn't claiming to be physically unfit for office at the time though - it's a little different. Biden does seem to be unfit to be the President.
As I have said before, the optics would be horrible- not having Harris a female of colour but replacing her with a white male such as Newsom? ! It won’t happen.
I agree with the optics, just don't see how Harris beats Trump, sadly.
I don't see that at all. He'd merely be stating he didn't think he was up to spending another four years as President, not a surprising thing for an 81 year old. Now if only a 78 year old would come to the same conclusion.
Not sure that would help much. If Trump were to stand down or be unable to continue for any other reason, then Vance would now step up instead, and his convention speech suggests he has similar attitudes. Eric or Don Jr for VP?
Indeed so.
Before the election yes. After: The Presidential line of succession mandates that the Speaker of the House of Representatives assumes the vice presidency in the event the VP becomes President.
Ford's Wikipedia says he was House Minority Leader and therefore not the Speaker, and he was nominated by Nixon when Spiro Agnew resigned as VP.
He almost certainly wouldn't get the number of votes that Trump would have, which could make a crucial difference.
Not an entirely serious post, but raising it as a "far out" idea:
In the event of a particularly far-right Trump presidency incorporating Project 2025, would it be time for America to split, I wonder? So that Northeasterners and Californians (amongst others) can live their lives unencumbered by backward, regressive, far-right nonsense.
Radical, I know, but the USA appears to be, in effect, two countries. The large cities and their wider urban areas (which are arguably the country's economic powerhouses) really don't seem to have much time for Trump and even less time for Project 2025 nonsense.
You could call the West and East the American Union, and the middle bit the American Confederacy.
The Union could then preserve, and extend, modern liberal values while the Confederacy could indulge in more conservative ones.
Freedom of movement would of course have to be preserved: I would foresee some kind of Schengen-like system covering the two new nations so that people can settle in their chosen one freely.
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Mind you, Vance is a relative unknown, and would not command anything like the cult following of Trump.
That could work for or against the Republicans, I guess. If Vance went more moderate, it could work for them.
Who other than somebody who can no longer think straight imagines Trump will not get nominated? It's the Democrats who are, as things stand, stuck with a soon-to-be loser.
I think it's more likely that the immediate aftermath of the assassination was never going to be a good time to announce such a decision, so the process has been slowed down. However, I think, after the initial delay, the push to get Biden to step down has now accelerated, with top Democrats like the leaders of the Senate and House both reported to be applying pressure, among others.
If it had really been an assassination then we wouldn't be doing all this speculation! Close shave though it may have been, given it was obviously a 'lone wolf' with no apparent anti-Republican overtones and Trump escaped with no lasting injuries, either physical or mental, the event needs to recede into the background quickly and the far more imperative story of ensuring Biden doesn't get nominated again has the full attention of all Democrats.
Got anything yet to check back up Kamala Harris being a communist? Notice you've been kinda quiet on this comment! Genuinely interested to know.
So one tabloid article then. Glad we can discount this now.
