Trump can be re-elected or he can be elected fairly. But he can’t be both.
How about both Trump and Biden keeling over and croaking during an especially acrimonious debate?
What a lovely free-for-all would result.
Sure. Under pressure from the DNC, Biden picks Hillary as his running mate. If they win, sometime in January Joe announces that his health has deteriorated, and resigns. Hillary becomes President.
Unprecedented influencer campaigns sweep Drs Birx and Fauci to victory over Drs Phil and Oz.
Those 67 senators would elect a D Veep who would them become president when there is no house to choose a president. If this produces a president Harris, I, for one, will cheer.
Trump gets sick, really sick, people think he may die. A [del]radicalized Democrat[/del] former Fox News employee terrified of the specter of explicit Christian dominionism assassinates Pence. Trump then recovers & names one of his spawn as his running mate.
But Biden actually dies. Insiders cover it up & replace him with an animatronic. This is exposed in the last half of September; the nation freaks out.
A majority of Democrats, disillusioned, turn to the Green Party. But! The Green Party has split into Howie Hawkins & Jesse Ventura factions.
By election day, the two Green factions are outpolling everybody, but no one knows who will win. Exit polls have them neck and neck.
The results come in. Libertarian candidate Justin Amash has won. Because Diebold determines who wins, not you.
Look, son, if Jesus says you’re his people, he’s taking you home whether you believe in him or not.
Well, that beat mine.
What party & what movement benefited from the people losing faith in Carter and Johnson?
Do you think the GOP isn’t inoculated against this? Their entire modern identity is based on the assumption that the government cannot manage the country, but instead only the private businessmen who fund the party can. Trump’s flailing is a gift to them, a demonstration of their core claim.
The Democrats pretend to believe that competence exists, but they’re trying very, very hard to nominate a sleepy old man rather than to demonstrate that they can find competence.
Whether Trump wins or loses, the GOP & its funders are winning the argument, every day.
“Republicans insist that government doesn’t work. Then they get elected and prove it.”
-PJ O’Rourke, conservative humorist
In a variation of Chump refusing to leave office, he holds Pence hostage in the White House as the FBI digs in for a lengthy siege.
Here’s one: The Pope, Oprah, and Larry King all confirm that Biden is a harasser. He drops out and Sanders steps up. Chooses AOC as Veep. Republicans giggle. tRump catches Covid and dies. But with his last breathe coughs on Pence, who dies 2 weeks later. Pelosi is president. Republicans rage and nominate Palin and Newt. Democrats rage and win election. REPUBLICANS heads explode in unison. Bernie and AOC rearrange the social safety net and publish the required tax incrases. Everybody’s head explodes. Cockroaches take over, as we all knew they would.
Didn’t we see something like that in BLAZING SADDLES ??
Except Chump doesn’t have that much to whip out.
How would Pence work? If you take a hostage, it has to be a person someone cares about.
That’s a problem. Who in Trimp the Chimp’s circle would most Americans [del]give a rat’s ass[/del] worry about? If he held HIMSELF hostage, the “right” would melt down. Fun.
(Trump pointing gun at own head) “Stay back or the grifter gets it!”
My GOP sister in Tucson: “Oh, that poor man!”
But. if there is no election, those 67 Senators have no one to vote for. The Twelfth Amendment states the Vice President must be elected by the electors, and it’s from the list of those people the electors votes for that the Senate chooses a Vice President if none get a majority.
No election, no choices for the Senate to vote for.
The Constitution of the USA simply doesn’t have any contingency for there not being an election. It ceases to function if there isn’t one.
Now I’m picturing Trump up on the White House roof, threatening to kill himself if people don’t give him a second term. And Pence is right behind him, saying “No, Mr President, those people are all yelling ‘JuhTrump!’”
Trump won’t cancel or postpone the elections. Because he’ll remain sure he’ll win.
Trump has shown he doesn’t understand anything unless he can see it right in front of him. So if polls, even the ones he commissions, show that he’s not projecting to win, he’ll deny the results and fire the pollsters. Eventually he’ll find some pollsters who will tell him what he wants to hear.
Meanwhile, Trump will continue to go to rallies, where they’ll scrape up a crowd of a few thousand die-hard Trump supporters who will shout his name. Trump will take this as proof that he has widespread support throughout the country.
Trump will dismiss any media reports of Biden’s lead as “fake news”. He’ll say he knows more than any of the so-called experts. So the election will run as scheduled and Trump will be astonished on November 4 when he’s told he lost.