Narcissists don’t think like other people if they start to sense defeat, they will start to look for an excuse or some kind of out that will allow them to save face. They don’t have a lot of control over this. I watched a speech last night, He talked for over an hour. Several things he said leads me to believe he is considering plan B. He lacked enthusisasm and fire. He came off like a beaten man.
I’m still not counting him out. I’m still worried he might pull a rabbit out of his hat, and then Goodbye, America. I hope he gives up, is unable to continue, or (best option) is absolutely crushed in the election – like 160 million to 17.
Trump reminds me of an old joke. A guy is making funeral arrangements for his mother-in-law. The funeral director asks what kind of monument he wants. The guy says, ‘Something big and heavy!’
I do not want to see Trump climb out of the hole he’s digging.
The only way he could get out of this hole is if he reins in the crazy, and can you really see him doing that?
I expect the lies to just get more deranged, as he realizes “Hey, my lies aren’t working like they used to! Why won’t you just believe me? I’d better come up with something better!”
What would happen if the Republican candidate stroked out before the election? I would not rule that out in this already freaky election season.
I would assume the Republicans would have to have an emergency convention type thing to select a new nominee.
I would expect it to be bloody and highly chaotic.
Under party rules, if the nominee dies or resigns before the election, then the 150 or so committeemen of the Republican National Committee can choose a replacement.
But…,but…but… that’s unconstitutional! At least it was when Biden dropped out. Won’t someone think of the primary voters?
Well, considering MAGAts are still clinging to the talking point of “14 million primary votes were ignored when Sleepy Joe quit and Kamabla was installed” I would expect them to hold a nice, orderly primary where everyone gets a fair shake. While the rest of the country buys up every bottle of champagne on the shelves.
annnnnnd ninja’d. At least by one of my favorite posters on this forum. Cheers.
IOKWARDI
Hay siglos en los que no pasa nada
y años en los que pásan siglos.
(“There are centuries in which nothing happens and years in which centuries pass.”)
—Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, in his poem “Sefarad, 1492,” written in 1990. Noteworthy as the probable origin of the apocryphal quote “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” generally attributed to Lenin, among others.
We appear to be in the middle of a year where an outsized amount of change is occurring.
Depending- if actually dead- GOP chaos. The RNC is totally controlled by trumpists, but that also means a lack of competency. If just incompactitated- they would keep trump on the ballot.
Was Elon lisping as well? Or was the tech only malfunctioning for Trump?
Depends on whether it happens before or after the ballot deadline, I would think.
If before, the RNC could appoint a new candidate, as others have noted.
If the state ballot deadline(s) have passed (or started to pass), wouldn’t they be stuck with Dead Trump at the top of the ticket, with JD Vance their candidate for VP?
There would be some point beyond which it would be impossible to substitute another candidate for Trump on the ballots. This would vary by state and be likely subject to litigation. In that instance, the RNC would encourage people to vote for Trump knowing that the electors would go to the new candidate.
In a somewhat comparable situation, in the 2000 Missouri Senate race, Mel Carnahan defeated incumbent John Ashcroft for reelection despite the former having died 20 days before election day. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot, but the Governor promised that he would appoint Carnahan’s widow to the seat should he win the election. Carnahan defeated Ashcroft, unfortunately making the later available to be W’s first Attorney General.
But then wouldn’t the electors in each state have to vote for the new candidate?
Trump has surrounded himself with the crazy, so I will assume that they will advise him to stay (or even up the) crazy.
But that’s a bit different. You don’t have a “Vice Senator” on the ballot.
Were I Vance, and they tried to stick someone ahead of me after the ballots had already been printed, I’d sue everyone in sight. The whole point of the VP spot is to replace the P. There’s got to be some point in the process where they’re stuck with him.
Some states have laws that would require the electors to vote for the candidate chosen by the party’s national committee. But others don’t, and these electors would be free to vote for whomever they please. Being stalwart party men and women, however, they would almost certainly vote for the approved replacement.
Sue on what basis? RNC rules do not require that a vacancy in the Presidential nomination be filled by the Vice Presidential nominee. No state law requires this. A VP fills a Presidential vacancy only after they have been sworn in. There’s no equivalent requirement for party nominees.
“RNC rules are not the law of the land! The people know they’re voting for me, The properly nominated successor for the Sainted Trump!”
Do you really think he won’t try, even if he thinks the odds are against him? It’s the Presidency of the United Fucking States. You don’t give that up without a fight.