He's trying to time it for immediately after Harris announces her VP pick. He wants to steal the news cycle from her.
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I just headed over to /r/conservative to skim the posts.
I'll admit that it was a very shallow glance at what they're thinking but it really doesn't look like they're as upset with Vance as liberals like to think they are.
They're not as smug as they were a few weeks ago but they're still pretty comfortable with their poll numbers.
lol i'm guessing you haven't spent much time in /r/conservative. which i don't blame you for
but the reason they don't express dissatisfaction with anything going on in conservativeland is because you'll get banned if you do
So, now that JD has provided contacts to the Silicon Valley billionaires and proven to be an iron ball on Trumps feet, he can be replaced?
I wonder how much dirty laundry he culd wash from all the stuff he has already seen inside the campaign...
Hey, with all this talk of unity and how the Democrats should be picking a Republican to run on some kind of centrist wet-dream ticket, how about the "liberal media" starts beating the drum for donnie to kick JD off the ticket and add someone like AOC to the ticket?
You know: for "unity". For the tone - the Republicans should be utterly capitulating to the Democratic Party.
Why does no one in the corporate media ever suggest it is the Republican Party that should cave to the leftist majority in this country, but instead, the reverse is something that comes up. All. The. Time.
Is it because of all the couch fuckin'?
And the frogs.
Trump's communications director, Steven Cheung, denied the reports in a statement to Newsweek on Tuesday, "President Trump is thrilled with the choice he made with Senator Vance, and they are the perfect team to take back the White House. And any reporting to the contrary is nothing but ridiculous fake news from either nonexistent sources or individuals who have no idea what's going on.
Saving this quote for when Trump replaces Vance.
that cheung dude is hilarious. it's like exactly what trump would say except at twice the writing proficiency. so 6th grade level instead of 3rd grade
They'll just yell at you and call you "fake news"
Replacing Vance now would also undermine any argument they might make about switching the names on ballots for the Democrats. Those aren't valid, anyway--Biden wasn't the official nominee until the convention says so; nothing was locked in--but they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.
they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.
I think you're over-estimating their commitment to logic, consistency or reality.
They don't, but it also has to sink in with the general public. When both sides are being switched out, there's a very obvious argument against the claim.
That makes sense but MAGA has always leaned hard on the "but when I do it, it's OK" rhetoric.
Biden wasn’t the official nominee until the convention
Even then, nothing prohibits him (or Vance, realistically) from resigning.
This is mostly just funny to watch.
There is a legal point where states won't accept changes to the ballots. Also a practical one where there isn't time to print new ones. Neither point has passed, of course, but Trump was trying to imply it was.
If Biden died on November 4th, he'd remain on the ballot the next day and - if he won the majority of the EC - Harris would be the presumptive President Elect on November 6th. If Vance resigned as VP, we'd see the same results under a Trump win. We have a clear order of succession and mechanisms for appointing replacements to downticket slots like VP per the 25th amendment.
The absolute worst case scenario is that Trump would force Vance to resign and then be stuck with a House/Senate picking his VP for him. But since he's not even the President-Elect at the moment I don't think that's actually an issue.
never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake
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