Aren’t the first ballot deadlines in just a couple of days?
The earliest was Ohio which got pushed back until after the Democratic National Convention in two weeks. I hadn’t heard about any other states’ deadlines presenting a problem for the Democrats so presumably the Republicans would also have that long to change their ticket.
It’s surreal at how bad he is at countering the “weird” label. His team have had plenty of time to think of some good retorts. Walz not kissing his wife onstage does not seem weird in the slightest to me. Walz’s team should put together a supercut of all the times that Trump and Vance have appeared onstage without kissing their spouses. And add in the times that Trump has kissed Ivanka on stage to show how weird he is for kissing his daughter but not his wife.
Also, the answer about having a beer is a clunker. He thinks he’d be good to have a beer with because he likes beer? Does he think liking beer is unusual among beer drinkers? Maybe he doesn’t realize that people want to get a beer with people who are interesting, likeable, and are fun to talk to. Perhaps when he asks someone to go get a beer, he’s used to hearing “Umm…No thanks. I don’t like beer.”
I remember a couple of times when Trump reached out for Melania’s hand, only for her to reject his.
after the very ackward gore kiss at the dnc, there should be no kissing! just say no! obama fist bump for the win.
Maybe he’s getting campaign advice from Justice Kavanaugh.
When Vance was in Iraq, did he fight a typewriter or a word processor? Those Selectrics could be brutal.
Quoting the New Republic:
Damn. My shade detector just went wild.
How do you do, fellow beer drinkers?
At least Vance had balls.
I almost did a spit-take of my IPA.
My guess, if Trump died, is that the RNC would declare Ivanka the candidate, with the VP pick acknowledged to be the ‘real President’—very possibly the aforementioned Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts.
With time so short even the Republicans wouldn’t want to get into a Ted Cruz v. Ron DeSantis v. Jim Jordan v. Glenn Youngkin v. Rick Scott brouhaha. And they’d like the symbolism of running a woman against Harris—with it being strictly understood by all voters that Ivanka would be only a figurehead. She’d know her place.
If Trump doesn’t die but merely has a stroke, of course, they’ll prop him up and keep him at the top of the ticket. Perhaps start selling the story that God will touch him and turn him into a literal Superman the moment he’s elected President. Many of his voters would go for that. (In that scenario, J.D. might be allowed to stay on the ticket with the understanding that he could never hope to Amendment-25 Donald.)
I suspect in the case of a dead Trump, we’re dealing with a Weekend at Bernie’s situation, with him propped up at the Resolute Desk.
This is a photo of a Vance rally yesterday in Wisconsin. AP photo. The “crowd” is only reporters. The photos reported in the press are only closeups of Vance (not the “crowd”). Just FYI since Trump loves to talk about crowd-size.
Then there’s Vance’s event in a police station parking lot yesterday in suburban Detroit. I hear it was about 100 people, mostly press, police, staff, Republican muckety-mucks and their staff.
Ivanka wouldn’t accept that role.
It would be cool have a “cage match” free for all of contenders.
I did the same with my lighter pale ale. Nearly spilled it on my awesome “music 
band” t-shirt!
Looks like the Trump/Vance ticket is garnering a bit more excitement than the boring Kamala/Walz duo.
A lighter shade of ale?
Ha…that goes with my t-shirt!
Meanwhile, Vance’s foiled attempt to manly confront Harris by manly marching across the tarmac to manly put her in her place her has drawn this from Lynda Carter:
