# Trump\_Bernie **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 10, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491 "2016-03-10T00:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![escaped](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@escaped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/escaped)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/1 "2016-03-10T00:36:39Z")
What if Donald Trump picked Bernie Sanders as his runing mate? I know this wont happen but what if? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/2 "2016-03-10T00:41:16Z")
Sanders would refuse, and he wouldn’t need to do any research first to see who this “Donald Trump” fellow is, and he certainly wouldn’t blame anything on a faulty microphone. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/3 "2016-03-10T00:48:20Z")
Come to think of it, a Trump-Sanders ticket is probably the only ticket conceivable that could beat Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/4 "2016-03-10T01:03:13Z")
This could be just the break that the Cruz campaign is looking for! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/5 "2016-03-10T01:08:28Z")
We’re in a different universe where pigs fly and metal is listenable music. Who knows whether gravity would even exist? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/6 "2016-03-10T01:11:52Z")
It’s far more likely that each would divorce their wives and marry each other. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/7 "2016-03-10T01:20:43Z")
Hell, I’d vote for them if they did that. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/8 "2016-03-10T01:32:24Z")
I think Trump’s probably already promised Christie the position. What other way could he have gotten Christie to endorse him? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/9 "2016-03-10T01:49:19Z")
Use your imagination. He hires a mad scientist to conjoin them like Chang and Eng Bunker. Come to think of it, Ben Carson could probably do it. Hell, it’s just like that thing he did with the babies, only in reverse, right? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/10 "2016-03-10T02:05:14Z")
> [@jshore](#): > > I think Trump’s probably already promised Christie the position. What other way could he have gotten Christie to endorse him? Offered a lifetime supply of hamburgers? \*[Bad Wolfpup! Bad dog! No treat for you!] \* ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/11 "2016-03-10T03:40:41Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Hell, I’d vote for them if they did that. So would I. I mean, on one level, I’m already living in a dystopian satire, it may as well be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/12 "2016-03-11T00:33:16Z")
We already did this [less than a week ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=786110). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/13 "2016-03-11T01:51:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > We already did this [less than a week ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=786110). And we’re taking it even less seriously. Wait till you see the responses the next time somebody posts it. And somebody will. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/14 "2016-03-11T02:02:37Z")
Obvious solution: vote Trump/Sanders. Then assassinate Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump_bernie/748491/15 "2016-03-11T02:04:54Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Obvious solution: vote Trump/Sanders. Then assassinate Trump. No need. The time travelers from the future will be lining up to do that.