US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

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Netizennameless said:
I think the main motivation for ditching Biden will be damage control and trying to salvage the party as a whole. Biden/pelosi/schumer may not care about the future but younger democrats don't want to sacrifice their future for corrupt octogenarians who only care for themselves. They can't admit they're giving up on the election because their donors would permanently disappear.
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I struggle to visualize how the Democrat Party as a whole survives the next 4 months if they really do try to run Biden all the way. Pretending an obvious dementia patient is OK? He's going to have many, many more "bad days" before November yet they expect every normie Dem to just pretend along with them? The debate was only two weeks ago - the election is 16 weeks away. How will the history books describe this election farce for the rest of time? I just don't see it, it's suicide for the entire Dem brand.
 
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WhiskeyJack said:
Though it sorta sounds like Trump just hinted it isn’t Marco.
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Isn't Trump a Floridian now? President and VP can't be from the same state. And there would be no point to put in Rubio since it doesn't really bring in or shore up any voting constituency. I've never considered Rubio to be of particular appeal to Latinos. If he was just going to do something as transactional as that, he should just go for a black guy like Tim Scott.
 
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WhiskeyJack said:
Jeremy sounds worried about Marco Rubio being picked.

Though it sorta sounds like Trump just hinted it isn’t Marco.
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I’m absolutely dying laughing at Trump, he blends the serious with the funny, the stories with the prompter so seamlessly it’s such a fun time. I’ve listened to him enough to know he does talk a lot to his ‘guests’ and name drop them throughout but I’m suspicious about his linking Marco with the VP pick, even if it was to dismiss it. I’m thinking he now may not announce, will need to rewatch Jeremy to see where this rumour came from.

Chris Christie is NOT a fat pig! (Repeat 11 times)
 
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Surprised Pikachu said:
I’m absolutely dying laughing at Trump, he blends the serious with the funny, the stories with the prompter so seamlessly it’s such a fun time. I’ve listened to him enough to know he does talk a lot to his ‘guests’ and name drop them throughout but I’m suspicious about his linking Marco with the VP pick, even if it was to dismiss it. I’m thinking he now may not announce, will need to rewatch Jeremy to see where this rumour came from.

Chris Christie is NOT a fat pig! (Repeat 11 times)
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Trump’s whole family is there, sounds like. That might be why he thinks this is the VP announcement. Even Barron is there.
 
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Vecr said:
I just looked up my snap answer to this question and apparently he's dead. So I guess not.
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I guess we could narrow down the list by determining the criteria needed by laws and public opinion; such as being an American citizen, being a name that is somewhat familiar, being between 35-50 years, being self-funded, good at public speaking, goot at formal events, good at informal events, etc.
 
quaawaa said:
Trump challenged Biden to an 18-hole golf match at Trump National Doral Golf Club:
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He's willing to give Biden a 20-stroke head start and if he loses, he'll donate $1 million to a charity of Biden's choice.

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It’s 20 strokes - 10 each side lol. Not clear if match or stroke play but either way that’s a big shit on Biden.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Plot twist: Trump disavowed Project 2025 because it didn't glaze his ego enough.
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twist?
WhiskeyJack said:
Though it sorta sounds like Trump just hinted it isn’t Marco.
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inside baseball says it's nobody currently in congress because that would diminish any possible gop leads
he who has thus come/gone said:
President and VP can't be from the same state.
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they sorta can but it kneecaps your electorate count from that state or something that matters when it's Florida
Trump can change his address pretty easy, but active congress is probably off the table so it doesn't matter for Zodiac
quaawaa said:
Trump challenged Biden to an 18-hole golf match at Trump National Doral Golf Club:
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He's willing to give Biden a 20-stroke head start and if he loses, he'll donate $1 million to a charity of Biden's choice.

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THAT'S OUR GOD EMPEROR! (laugh track)
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
This was the problem with Twitter. The Democrats decided Twitter was life and representative of what normal people believed. Instead, it's reflective of what people who choose to spend their time "retweeting" things believe.
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Yes, you would probably be closer to reality basing your worldview on what people say in the World of Warcraft than in the World of Twitter.

SaidNoOneEver said:
The debate was only two weeks ago - the election is 16 weeks away. How will the history books describe this election farce for the rest of time? I just don't see it, it's suicide for the entire Dem brand.
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Something along the lines of, "Well, it had worked for Fetterman so they just gave it a shot."
 
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Randall Flagg said:
It’s in the 12th amendment
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No, it isn’t. There’s no rule against both sides of the ticket being from the same state.

However, since an elector can’t vote for two people from his home state, it means the candidate would potentially lose the electoral votes for that state. He’d need to win the election by more EVs to make up for it. So conventional wisdom is that both must be from different states.

Not that it really matters. Cheney was from Texas like Bush, so before Election Day in 2000 he registered his vacation home in Wyoming as his official residence to get around this quirk of the Electoral College.
 
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WhiskeyJack said:
Not that it really matters. Cheney was from Texas like Bush, so before Election Day in 2000 he registered his vacation home in Wyoming as his official residence to get around this quirk of the Electoral College.
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The only quirk I could see of that in this era would be Trump switching from Florida to New York, for example, only to immediately have them try lawfare on him now that he's a resident of that state.
 
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