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msongs

(70,294 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:50 PM Aug 2024

who thinks trump is gonna dump vance for kennedy?


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trump will dump vance for kennedy
10 (12%)
heck no its JV all the way
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who thinks trump is gonna dump vance for kennedy? (Original Post) msongs Aug 2024 OP
Hah! Yes.please! UTUSN Aug 2024 #1
No because there's no money in it arlyellowdog Aug 2024 #2
Can he do that??? a kennedy Aug 2024 #3
Yes, none of the state deadlines for declaring party candidates has passed... getagrip_already Aug 2024 #13
Vance would have to QUIT before that could happen. Jack Valentino Aug 2024 #38
For god and country.... getagrip_already Aug 2024 #53
plus he's an asshole and as crazy as trump. nt (and i'm talking about kennedy) orleans Aug 2024 #45
No, there's no legal mechanism for doing this. People saying "YES" are misinformed on how nominations work Bucky Aug 2024 #49
He might be the 1 person worse than Vance.I'm all for that Tribetime Aug 2024 #4
I know...He will scare everyone off...LOL!!!! LeftInTX Aug 2024 #39
nope DemonGoddess Aug 2024 #5
It is unclear by what mechanism that would happen. nt Gore1FL Aug 2024 #6
Vance could always drop out for the good of the country. Demobrat Aug 2024 #19
The problem is getting a replacement and then getting that information to all of the states in a timely manner. Gore1FL Aug 2024 #26
Everything you say is no doubt correct. Demobrat Aug 2024 #35
Especially mercuryblues Aug 2024 #52
The RNC would never approve of Kennedy. He's like a scary movie!!! LeftInTX Aug 2024 #44
LOL Bucky Aug 2024 #50
i think he'll go with Tulsi Gabbard PedroXimenez Aug 2024 #7
Video: Tulsi Gabbard Gets HUMILIATED By Pete Buttigieg in 2020 debate clip Bucky Aug 2024 #51
It was my first thought! Tumbulu Aug 2024 #8
Why, isn't Vance weird enough? Ocelot II Aug 2024 #9
Trump knows he is cooked and he will pin the blame on Vance. Midnight Writer Aug 2024 #10
have never actually heard him speak. have a conspiracy nut friend who tells me about rfk nt msongs Aug 2024 #14
Never heard RFK Jr. speak? Wednesdays Aug 2024 #18
He was a speech issue...his voice sounds like gravel... LeftInTX Aug 2024 #41
Gravel, gravel, gravel, gravel.... LeftInTX Aug 2024 #40
No trump is vain. he wouldn't accept rfk jr's cracked voice. mucifer Aug 2024 #11
The Infirmed and the Worm. Solly Mack Aug 2024 #12
If he could just keep picking new people, he'd have done it at least once more already. Maru Kitteh Aug 2024 #15
RFK will upstage him too much... Dem4life1970 Aug 2024 #16
Well there was some kind of deal made. Demobrat Aug 2024 #17
If *rump chooses Kennedy, it will more likely be Uncle Joe Aug 2024 #20
This is too much! In charge of the "Diet of Worms"!!!! LeftInTX Aug 2024 #42
Nah. Trump's like my late father. Never makes a mistake and if he does, no_hypocrisy Aug 2024 #21
Exactly. efhmc Aug 2024 #23
Hmmmm...creepy for crazy. Not sure. One guy is a couchf***r snd the other carrys around a dead bear in trunk of his car. surfered Aug 2024 #22
I would not surprise me if he did JanMichael Aug 2024 #24
Out with the creepy uterus stalker, in with the creepy brain worm guy? Scrivener7 Aug 2024 #25
If he dumps Vance iemanja Aug 2024 #27
Actually, makes a lot of sense! OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2024 #28
Kennedy sounds like gravel. He makes Vance look good! LeftInTX Aug 2024 #43
Doesn't matter. They're both losers, and so is the orange turd. brush Aug 2024 #29
Trump visiting Hyannis should go over swell Submariner Aug 2024 #30
Less than zero chance. onenote Aug 2024 #31
People are saying the brain worm has the inside track NotASurfer Aug 2024 #32
We could only be so lucky ColinC Aug 2024 #33
Tomorrow or Friday he's going to try to commandeer the news cycle ecstatic Aug 2024 #34
Swap Couch Guy for Dead Bear/Brain Worm Guy? tinrobot Aug 2024 #36
You need another choice: Sogo Aug 2024 #37
Invite him to run *alongside* JD. They'd be the Trump Troika. Buns_of_Fire Aug 2024 #46
No one. edbermac Aug 2024 #47
I think Trump is gonna bow out and allow Kennedy to take his place... LeftInTX Aug 2024 #48
The Vice President... Mike Nelson Aug 2024 #54

arlyellowdog

(1,429 posts)
2. No because there's no money in it
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:52 PM
Aug 2024

PeterTheil likes Vance. Also, Vance is a fall guy for a loss.

a kennedy

(32,347 posts)
3. Can he do that???
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:52 PM
Aug 2024

I know I shouldn’t make disparaging remarks about RFK jr…….but I just can not listen to his voice, sorry I just can’t.

getagrip_already

(17,570 posts)
13. Yes, none of the state deadlines for declaring party candidates has passed...
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:56 PM
Aug 2024

It would likely be a paperwork change by the rnc once they took the vote to change the ticket.

But it wont happen. Tsf just doesnt care, and would never admit a vp choice could help him.

He helps the vp, not the other way around.

Jack Valentino

(1,512 posts)
38. Vance would have to QUIT before that could happen.
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:41 AM
Aug 2024

Otherwise, there's no mechanism in the party rules for the presidential nominee to kick the vp nominee off of the ticket.

getagrip_already

(17,570 posts)
53. For god and country....
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 06:00 AM
Aug 2024

If tsf told him to, he would step aside. He will not be destroyed as long as he is loyal.

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
49. No, there's no legal mechanism for doing this. People saying "YES" are misinformed on how nominations work
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 05:06 AM
Aug 2024

There would have to be a convening of the Republican National Committee to vote to oust Vance--which is both legally dubious (because there are binding contracts already signed establishing his relationship and position with the RNC) and politically untenable (since his selection was ordained by the politically powerful investor/donor class of oligarchs who fund the RNC).

This fantasy of parties situationally swapping out candidates to improve their chances is the speculation of people who don't understand party dynamics and legal obligations.

Gore1FL

(22,003 posts)
26. The problem is getting a replacement and then getting that information to all of the states in a timely manner.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:20 PM
Aug 2024

I don't think the RNC and/or the Trump campaign could pull it off. It would be October before they would have signs bumper stickers and buttons made.

That's several bridges too far, IMO.

Demobrat

(9,953 posts)
35. Everything you say is no doubt correct.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:47 PM
Aug 2024

Trump is nuts, though, or should I say weird, so really nothing is beyond imagining.

LeftInTX

(30,709 posts)
44. The RNC would never approve of Kennedy. He's like a scary movie!!!
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:55 AM
Aug 2024

He makes Vance look good.


Midnight Writer

(23,148 posts)
10. Trump knows he is cooked and he will pin the blame on Vance.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:54 PM
Aug 2024

He won't want someone with Kennedy's speaking style. Or someone with Kennedy's ego.

msongs

(70,294 posts)
14. have never actually heard him speak. have a conspiracy nut friend who tells me about rfk nt
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:57 PM
Aug 2024

Wednesdays

(20,315 posts)
18. Never heard RFK Jr. speak?
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:01 PM
Aug 2024

Just imagine a man who gargles glass shards every morning.

LeftInTX

(30,709 posts)
41. He was a speech issue...his voice sounds like gravel...
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:48 AM
Aug 2024

His voice is sooo bad, that he can't even listen to himself!

Maru Kitteh

(29,240 posts)
15. If he could just keep picking new people, he'd have done it at least once more already.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 08:58 PM
Aug 2024

For lots of reasons, the first of course being attention.


Demobrat

(9,953 posts)
17. Well there was some kind of deal made.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:00 PM
Aug 2024

Kennedy didn’t endorse Trump for free. And Trump needs all the help he can get, so ….
the mind does go there.

Uncle Joe

(60,266 posts)
20. If *rump chooses Kennedy, it will more likely be
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:05 PM
Aug 2024

for Secretary of Health & Human Services or Surgeon General.

Thanks for the thread msongs.

LeftInTX

(30,709 posts)
42. This is too much! In charge of the "Diet of Worms"!!!!
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:50 AM
Aug 2024


They made us read a book about Martin Luther in HS. The guy was always constipated and there was this diet of worms!

no_hypocrisy

(49,245 posts)
21. Nah. Trump's like my late father. Never makes a mistake and if he does,
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:06 PM
Aug 2024

he'd never admit it.

surfered

(3,815 posts)
22. Hmmmm...creepy for crazy. Not sure. One guy is a couchf***r snd the other carrys around a dead bear in trunk of his car.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:08 PM
Aug 2024

Scrivener7

(53,243 posts)
25. Out with the creepy uterus stalker, in with the creepy brain worm guy?
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:17 PM
Aug 2024

This is their bench. But noooo. They're not weird.

OAITW r.2.0

(28,755 posts)
28. Actually, makes a lot of sense!
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:21 PM
Aug 2024

If you think like Trump. Kennedy name acquisition? Sure, why not? Every Democrat will vote for my ticket now.

NotASurfer

(2,329 posts)
32. People are saying the brain worm has the inside track
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:34 PM
Aug 2024

Compared to TFG, the worm is shorter, less photogenic, and makes TFG seem more intelligent (mostly by eating the brains of his target demographic). In short it makes TFG look good by comparison. And it's both a better communicator and less creepy than JD Vance.

ecstatic

(34,530 posts)
34. Tomorrow or Friday he's going to try to commandeer the news cycle
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 09:46 PM
Aug 2024

He's not going to replace him with rfkj. It'll be tulsi.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,963 posts)
46. Invite him to run *alongside* JD. They'd be the Trump Troika.
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 01:39 AM
Aug 2024

troi·ka (noun)
a group of three people working together, especially in an administrative or managerial capacity.

1. It would acknowledge Rump's neo-Russian roots.
2. It would lock in the weirdo vote.
3. We could actually see Harris/Walz win with all 538 electoral votes!

LeftInTX

(30,709 posts)
48. I think Trump is gonna bow out and allow Kennedy to take his place...
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 04:59 AM
Aug 2024

Of course not, but I can see some on DU predicting this. (Ala, he's leaving the country)
It would be hilarious, but it would never happen.


Heck, for those who predicted he would leave the country eight years ago, why hasn't he left?

Mike Nelson

(10,379 posts)
54. The Vice President...
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 06:01 AM
Aug 2024

... must know how to be "Number Two" - and RFJ is not capable of doing that part of the job.

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