It is difficult for an ongoing business (or an investor) to go bankrupt without debt.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 1
- vance continues to veer off talking points not passed through trump's digestive tract
- if trump suspects his own support of vance is fighting the trend among the GOP, or the public in general, he will exercise his 1-way loyalty (trump takes pride of his retrospective awareness regarding the stench of a loser...himself excluded)
- trump can blame vance selection on his 'advisors'
- there are countless MAGA ingratiates waiting like tim scott, who may actually net some votes...haley would be touted as a superior female of the same minority as harris
- trump will claim his VP replacement is not much later than any harris VP announcement
- any screwed up ballots with biden or vance listed will support his universal voter fraud platform
add all above, probability = significantly not-zero
No. of Recommendations: 2
vance wondering if walz is harris' final choice for vp is ironic, and tells me he really doesnt understand many important aspects of trump.
it is beyond naive for vance and pundits to think that at a certain desperation level (which i assign fairly low), trump would not hesitate to ditch vance if he thought it could make any net swing.
you think trump is worried about sunk cost in 'vance VP' election spend? the name of any VP on printed ballots? give me a break.
assigning loyalists is something for after winning, and useless if a prior negative.
trump is a person that NEVER took responsibility of dozens of of key roles he hired, and then subsequently fired, in a matter of days to months. if trump has supreme confidence in anything, it is his ability to scapegoat and deflect what are clearly singular decision points.
and since MAGA is only about trump, they will applaud it.
the only thing that may save vance is the uncertainty that trump's other options would poll him back to neutral.
No. of Recommendations: 4
assigning loyalists is something for after winning,
Except that it's really hard to change your VP pick after the election. Trump learned about the importance of having loyalists in EVERY position on January 6. He isn't going to make that mistake again.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 1
trump would not much care AFTER the win.
VPs are among the easiest positions to sideline and make irrelevant at the Prez' discretion.
No. of Recommendations: 8
VPs are among the easiest positions to sideline and make irrelevant at the Prez' discretion.
Until you need them to help overturn an election at the ceremonial reading of Electoral College votes in Congress. Then they get to exercise their own discretion. Best have a good loyalist in that position from the get go.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 1
am pretty sure the VP does not have the power to actually change anything...minor disruption at best with lasting embarrasment.
this was the only reason pence cowed.
No. of Recommendations: 1
in a twist to the generic MAGA conspiracies : vance wants to promote use of the 25th Amendment against Dems as a warmup for when trump is in office.
vance is another delusional GOP pol who thinks MAGA cares about anything else as long is trump lives...cult of personality is non-transferable.
odds of vance being dumped is scaling with trump's sense of desperation...steadily , then suddenly. look for vance's prior opinion of trump surfacing by MAGA media proxies...someone that never really bought into loyalty to trump above personal ambition, much less nation.
