(July 24, 2019 at 7:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:I think if that were to happen the Republicans would go after the person with everything they had to stop them from attempting to dethrone his Orangeness. As much as I hate it, I really think we are going to be in for another 4 years of having a complete and total pig as the president of this country.(July 24, 2019 at 7:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: It would be highly unlikely that the republicans would run anyone but Trump. It's almost never been done in the US that the party of a sitting president runs someone against him.
The Dems look more and more inept with each passing day. We are just short of a year till the next election and still don't really have a standout leader from the DNC.
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They don't need to. A plausible (but by no means likely) scenario is that a Republican (ANY Republican) who isn't totally in love with Trump starts their own candidacy, probably promising things Trump on which Trump did not deliver, or promising a return to Republican normalcy. When the new candidate fails to get the nomination, s/he runs as an independent. Trump loonies will adhere to Trump, no question about it, but the disaffected Republican centrists, who would NEVER vote for the Democratic candidate, may swing to the new option. This may be enough to keep Trump from winning.
If you're gonna dream, dream big.
Boru
I will still vote but I think it's already a done deal.
The guy is Teflon...nothing, no matter how awful, sticks to him. And he has brought every slimy creature out from under their rocks and given them a national stage. It's the pendulum swinging as far the other way as it can from having a (gasp) black man in the 'White House'.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
