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We aren't in such a nice timeline.

I think it kind of depends on how he dies.

Massive ugly heart attack on live tv is different than someone shooting him in the head, and those are both different than like a bombing at one of his rallies.

It'd be a toss-up at that point, depending on who they put up before the election. Maybe Nikki Haley could actually win again Biden? The other non-candidates that ran during the primaries don't seem like they'd fare well. That'd be hilarious if the party most opposed to women's rights were to get the first female president in office. Losing Trump would be a speedbump for Conservatives though, they're moving towards trying to take America down the road of a theocracy, I'm not sure that losing Trump would really stop that, they're pretty much committed to making it happen at some point.

Liberals completely drop their guard and the republicans put someone up who is actually smart but still follows the far right agenda. Trump is chaotic (inept) evil at best, but the danger is getting lawful intelligent evil in.

I'm sure NYT and CNN would have a laundry list of reasons of why it was bad for Biden.

There will be a party that lasts for 4 years!!! Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.

And more importantly, how would affect LeBron's legacy.

While I wouldn't wish death on anyone, it would probably be one of the better things to happen to American politics this year, as you'd essentially be beheading the MAGA movement - it is unlikely that anyone else could retake those reigns with how centred the movement is around Trump specifically, man's practically worshipped like a new Jesus to them.

We'll see what happens when I put together my voodoo doll.

The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.

We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.

Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.

With either candidate, it all depends on timing.

If either candidate dies before their respective conventions, the Republicans on 7/15 to 7/18 and the Democrats on 8/19 to 8/22, then the convention becomes an open convention, with deals being made to select a new candidate.

If one of them dies after the convention, it's up to the party to pick a replacement, likely the VP candidate, but it doesn't have to be.

If the winner of the election dies after the election, it gets incredibly messy, again, depending on the timing.

There's a good novel on that hypothetical called "The People's Choice".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Choice_(novel)

Well the former presidency will leave office after January 20th regardless of if the election takes place, but there is a solid chance a new candidate doesn't obtain enough delegates for that party to put them on the ballot and that the election does in fact take place.

The Maga movement is definable as a High Control Organization, and Trump is the Prophet.

If he dies one of two things could happen, either 1) a new "great leader" is able to consolidate the base and keep the movement going, or 2) nobody is able to recreate that charisma enough to reform the movement, and as a result the entire thing collapses in on itself.

Trump suddenly dropping dead of old age would make the second very likely, he made a point of making the top echelons of the RNC dangerous to anyone who could make option one happen, because he sees anyone capable of that as a challenger to his authority. The king has no heir.

I genuinely think Trump dying of old age would produce similar results to the Republican Party that the Deaths of JFK and RFK (not the brain worm one) had on the Democratic Party. The fact that his base of support is on the older side would probably add to the despair of the whole thing, being a reminder that their time is similarly short.

I don't think we'll see very many of the cult snap out of the delusion, but we'd certainly see some have rather public breakdowns facing the absolute nothingness their devotion has wrought.

At best, they got a high for a few moments and returned to the state of despair they had been previously chasing the high to escape, at worst, they've lost all their support system to the sheer disgust they've felt over the cultist's indoctrination, leading to the wam bam combo of the despair in combination with inescapable loneliness, remember, a lot of these people are really just the "make the kids come back to thanksgiving again!" caucus.

I don't think we'll see infighting or civil warring among the ranks of the Redcaps, what we'll see is people who think that expressing grief makes you weak attempt to cope with what they'll see as their messiah just dying unceremoniously from the same hand that's reaching closer and closer for them every day, and before they got the rewards of vindication they had been promised by him.