Conservative columnist predicts Trump's 'October surprise' — and it's bad for J.D. Vance
Conservative columnist predicts Trump's 'October surprise' — and it's bad for J.D. Vance
Donald Trump may have a card up his sleeve for an "October surprise," and J.D. Vance should be worried, a conservative columnist said Saturday.During an appearance on MSNBC over the weekend, columnist Jennifer Rubin — a loyal conservative until Donald Trump came along — was asked about the impact .....
I will be fucking shocked if Trump doesn't replace JD with Kennedy out of desperation.
Could he even do that? I mean JD is the official nominee for VP. It doesn’t seem right that Trump could just change his mind. Not to mention early ballots are starting to go out in 2 weeks. If you vote for Trump/VD that wouldn’t count for Trump/Kennedy. Right?
Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he can and will do whatever the fuck he wants, consequences be damned. I think he is intrinsically aware that JD is a fucking dead weight around his ankles at this point, and that RFK actually has some potential electoral upside. Whether he is willing to trade the twink (JD) for the cuck (RFK) remains to be seen, but I think it would be totally on brand.
All that matters is the Elector you cast your ballot for. As for the nomination process, the RNC can just change the rules if they want.
Isn't it too late to change VP candidate? I saw speculation on this before and the issues were around the need to reconvene delegates for the RNC to approve the change and also to be on the ballot? Early voting starts in September so October is also too late?
The deadline is when ballots are printed/state laws and what political parties do is according to custom not law. If the RNC, or even just the Trump campaign, reached out to each states' election committee it could register the new information then it just needs to be mindful of state laws.
Now, let's say Trump tries this shit in mid October- people like me (overseas mail in voters) will already have our ballots so our vote will be recorded for (assuming I voted Republican which I'm fucking not) Trump/Vance, if the majority of a state submits a ballot like that the laws around faithless delegates might not allow electors to actually cast their ballots for whatever the ticket is. This could absolutely cause a constitutional crisis.
It could also happen that Trump/Kennedy gets 43% of the votes in a state, Trump/Vance gets 10% of the votes, and Harris/Walz gets 47% of the votes... this would likely be a state constitutional crisis.
I suspect Trump isn't going to replace Vance because, for logistical reasons, he'd want to have done it as soon as fucking possible to.
I think October would be far too late to try and pull this off, but I would be so happy to see a Pinky and the Brainworm ticket.
The October surprise will be a love seat with a heartwrenching story about a powerful man, his desires, and their body.
Oh please let Walz debate RFK
Oh Jesus Christ that would go so much worse for RFK than it would for Vance.
There's plenty of people that could do better on the ticket. Somehow, defying all logic and probability, they'll choose someone worse.
And we're loving it.
It's possible, but I think Trump's instinctual disdain for people with something "wrong" with them might make him unlikely to pick RFK Jr just because of how he talks. Trump is certainly that superficial.
Beyond that, two problems: 1) filling deadlines for state ballots (differs for each state), and 2) RNC 2020 rules the dictate if a there's nominee or running mate vacancy, it is filled by the RNC or voted on at a rerun of their national convention.
TBH, I think Trump would love the chaos and media coverage of a second national convention. So the real problem is mostly the ballots. Otherwise, I could definitely see Trump changing his VP nomination late and then trying to ride a (second) RNC national convention bounce into the election. He's certainly desperate enough to try anything.
The dead lines for names on the ballots will have passed in many states. Ohio deadline has passed already.
That deadline doesn’t actually matter. It just means that Vance would be written on the ballot, not that he needs to stop be the candidate.
Trump would be better off making Nikki Haley his VP.
He could try to win back some of the women voters he lost to Harris. (And the media would love pitting two Indian women against each other.)
And Haley can hold her own in a debate, which I’m not sure I can say about Vance or Kennedy.
But she is too competent and would make him look foolish by comparison... and she has a vagina, so he'll never pick her.
It's called Halloween, and trump will finally remove his mask and reveal he is... Freddy Kreuger! Sleep well bitches.
He reveals that he is..... the late, great Hannibal Lecter
Or is it... Hannibal Kreuger! ? ! Plot twist. Oh snap!
Only the best people lol
So some conservative journalist predicted something almost two months away and we are reporting on it?
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