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Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate?
#26965329 - 10/02/20 06:11 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Will it be Pence?
Will Pence be president until new elections can be arranged?
How does that work in US elections?
Asking of the Shroomery Republicans: who would you prefer to see as the next republican president?
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Asante]
#26965408 - 10/02/20 07:48 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Trump is a cult of personality and the strategists for the Republican party are well aware of it. Should Trump die, they have no chance of winning the election. Their move would almost certainly be to treat Trump as a martyr/fallen hero and try to ride on that adoration to get seats filled by Trump-esque candidates. Pence is poised to take the position and to run for the presidency should Trump die, but he and everyone else know that he'd bomb in November.
In a more general sense, Trump is in a really bad spot. If this is some BS stunt like Diosdado Cabello did in Venezuela, people will lose trust in him. If he has severe symptoms after months of attempting to downplay and dismiss it, people will lose trust in him. It's definitely a lose-lose situation (lose-lose-lose if you count death as another form of defeat.) Being fair though, he'll lose much more support should he become severely ill than should he be asymptomatic.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Darwin23]
#26965519 - 10/02/20 09:04 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pence wins with the sympathy vote. Pence vs Biden is an ideal match up for the Republicans.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: qman] 4
#26965725 - 10/02/20 11:14 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Legally, I'm pretty sure it's too late to take Trump off the ballot. So, voting continues with trump on the ballot, even if he's dead. If he is elected, then 20th amendment section 3 kicks in, so VP pence becomes president.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Asante] 1
#26965838 - 10/02/20 12:27 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Asking of the Shroomery Republicans: who would you prefer to see as the next republican president?
Pretty sure there’s only one man on this planet that could match trumps craziness, lies and downright shameful behavior . There’s only one guy I can see appealing to his base . Alex Jones . I don’t think the Republican party can go back to what it used to be . They are going to have to make the most out of whatever Trump leaves them with .
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Asante]
#26965931 - 10/02/20 01:23 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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The doctor said he is doing well. Him and Melania
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: imachavel]
#26965941 - 10/02/20 01:27 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Give it time...
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Enlil]
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: imachavel] 5
#26965968 - 10/02/20 01:42 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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imachavel said: The doctor said he is doing well. Him and Melania
The Doctor and Melania are doing well
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Asante]
#26965970 - 10/02/20 01:44 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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President Pence 
He would probably win too, far less prone to making an ass of himself
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Asante]
#26966039 - 10/02/20 02:39 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Doctor and Melania are doing well 
   
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Kryptos]
#26966352 - 10/02/20 05:09 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Kryptos said: Legally, I'm pretty sure it's too late to take Trump off the ballot. So, voting continues with trump on the ballot, even if he's dead. If he is elected, then 20th amendment section 3 kicks in, so VP pence becomes president.
Trump dead, yet still on the ballot.... I'd pay to see that in this bat shit crazy story. If he recovers 2 weeks before the election, like a modern type fat arse Jesus figure, I'd pay to see that too! This is the best election ever
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Enlil]
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To see the orange face fade to white, already missing him.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Enlil] 2
#26967024 - 10/03/20 06:40 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seriously, I don't understand your inclination that Trump might not survive this. The recovery rates are in his favor, so what do you know that we don't, that you're saying to 'just wait..'
If that's where your heart is, then the best you have to hope for is some lung scarring or perm damage of some kind.
Regardless, I don't believe any report on Trump's progress, so 'doing just fine' is meaningless to me.
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#26967036 - 10/03/20 06:49 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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When did I say he won't recover? Recovery isn't enough, though. He has to skip out of the fucking hospital Monday morning and play golf on Tuesday to save his election chances now.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Ezuma]
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Ezuma said: President Pence 
He would probably win too, far less prone to making an ass of himself
Who would vote for him? Fundamentalists and hardcore conservatives, and nobody else. He would lose at least as bad as Trump would.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Brian Jones]
#26967504 - 10/03/20 12:10 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pence has a long history of losing repeatedly, and then begging for corporate funding to save his campaign while publicly campaigning on being against corporate funding.
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: Brian Jones] 2
#26967786 - 10/03/20 03:22 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ezuma said: President Pence 
He would probably win too, far less prone to making an ass of himself
Who would vote for him? Fundamentalists and hardcore conservatives, and nobody else. He would lose at least as bad as Trump would.
you're probably (hopefully) right, but I'm very cautious about trusting voter's judgement these days
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Re: Suppose Trump dies of COVID this month, who will be the Republican candidate? [Re: birdeatingspider] 1
#26967842 - 10/03/20 04:03 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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birdeatingspider said: Seriously, I don't understand your inclination that Trump might not survive this. The recovery rates are in his favor, so what do you know that we don't, that you're saying to 'just wait..'
If that's where your heart is, then the best you have to hope for is some lung scarring or perm damage of some kind.
Regardless, I don't believe any report on Trump's progress, so 'doing just fine' is meaningless to me.
Let’s start with a baseline overall mortality rate for a person who tests positive in his age group: 5%. Double that because he’s obese. Double that again because he has symptoms. Double that again because he’s been hospitalized and receiving experimental and emergency use drugs. It’s still more likely he will survive but not by much.
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