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If Trump is impeached, who do you think the Republicans will field for 2020?
- Thread starter Doc Kelso
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i feel like he's been keeping himself off to the side just in case trump got shitcanned over sommit
Trump
honestly even if he was somehow magically removed from office(20 republican senators aren't voting for that but lets just pretend) if they didn't also take the additional step beyond that of barring him from running again I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if it was still Trump again
honestly even if he was somehow magically removed from office(20 republican senators aren't voting for that but lets just pretend) if they didn't also take the additional step beyond that of barring him from running again I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if it was still Trump again
In any sort of implicit deal was made, he should've reneged the moment he was sworn in. What exactly could Nixon have done then? Ford was an utter moron to think pardoning Tricky Dick wouldn't sick his presidency and any chance for re-election.
I'm at the point where I'm quite sure this was a backroom deal between them two. Probably discussed before Watergate even happened.
Trump being impeached doesn't mean he'll get removed from office, two presidents have been impeached and none of them were removed.
IF he is impeached it will be only by the house, so it's not like he's not going to try and run again. Republicans will claim "deep state" conspiracy....
If by some miracle it happens, probably Pence. It'll be a lame duck position, nobody of any note is going to want to attach themselves to that shit show. Keep in mind the party itself will probably implode. The moron diehard Trumpers will probably claim the Republican swamp didn't go enough to save their god and perceive Pence or anyone else as a traitor.
if this were to actually go down it would be such an immeasurable clusterfuck for the GOP and their base that I don't think anyone could guess what would happen
I really want to believe this, but the GoP already survived Nixon, so I'm inclined to believe they can survive Trump...
I always read it the way you did.
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Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States; but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
—Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7
I'm having my first kid next year. I fully expect to see this photo in their history textbooks.
Just for clarification since people conflate them all the time, impeachment is just bringing forth charges on the president and is done solely by the house. The actual trial and removal from office is a separate thing from impeachment and done by the Senate(lol, as if these cowards would), and he is still president until after that trial unless he steps down(lol, like he ever would willingly).
I don't mean implode as in they will go away (unfortunately) just that they will have to retool, rebrand and reinvent themselves and find the next group of gullible, useful idiots like evangelicals and tea baggers and Trumpers.
Romney and he would crush it sadly. The Democrats have a horribly weak showing due to our fractured party and identity.
Doesn't matter though because the Senate will borderline never pass the verdict to impeach.
Doesn't matter though because the Senate will borderline never pass the verdict to impeach.
Yeah. People need to reiterate this over and over and over. He'll likely be impeached. He likely won't be convicted in the Senate. He'll probably be impeached and just run again. He'll still win (at least) 45+% of the vote. There is 0% chance of that not happening at this point.
either someone super establishment like kasich to court the "moderates," or just full MAGA and nominate jr
Will def be her. a "progressive" move fielding a republican woman who was "good" at her job.
The only way the 'Pub base can save face is to show their face now. If Trump's shown to be treasonous it follows that the best way forward for them is Weld.
The 'Pub base, the nation and the world would know this is how they'll absolve themselves and to show and allow others to believe them on their word again to be true to everyone else, one another and themselves. It puts them in the process as well.
Weld. The first presidential candidate to suggest executing Trump. A 'Pub leader.
Lol. Its funny in a sad but true sense. I wont be laughing in a year when those are our "choices".
Its sad watching this play out because a ton of people are so convinced impeached=removed. We are still very far from that position just yet.
Maybe, but the relationship and culture surrounding Trump is much different than Nixon. The actual GOP apparatus will be more than happy to sell trump down the river if/when they decide it's strategically expedient, but the base of true believers is all in on Trump, and they have swallowed all the shit they've been fed these past few years. The deep state, the swamp, the 'globalists', the whole thing...many of them literally believe any political actor not on the Trump Train wants to destroy America. They will not be lining up to get behind a Romney or a Jeb or a Ryan a few weeks after Trump is ousted. They will be asking why those traitors didn't do everything in their power to save the true God Emperor of America from getting ousted by the satanic elites.
I mean I'm exaggerating, a little, but I really think that's how it will play for the base.
Now I don't know that that means the collapse or total reimagining of the GOP or what, but I am pretty confident it will be an insane fucking mess.
Her being a women helps them check off the "diversity" card that the party clearly lacks too, and attempt to get back women voters who were the largest block that bailed on them in the 2018 midterms.
You would think that years later this wouldn't be funny, but I belly laugh every time. I think they just give in and nominate Hannity because America isn't fucked enough in the head already.
