Off Topic Politics Thread

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Schad said:
Election date in fixed in the Constitution; it cannot be changed.

On replacing him, that's really uncharted waters as far as the presidential race goes. We're not only close to the election: voting has already begun. Tens of millions of absentee ballots have been delivered to voters, and I believe something around 1m have already been officially received. We're already past the deadline for candidates to be listed on the ballot in most/all states.

Per Rick Hasen (who knows this stuff), the most likely scenario if Trump dies is that the election goes ahead with Zombie Donald Trump on the ballot. It's too late to do anything else. This has happened in other races: former US Attorney General John Ashcroft infamously lost his Senate seat to a guy who'd been dead for three weeks. What happens after that point could theoretically get really weird, though:

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=116098

In short, it could potentially give the GOP an in to do something that Trump has mused about: using state legislatures to do an end-around on the way states award their Electoral College votes (which is usually by, y'know, giving them to the candidate who gets the most votes). They could argue that the presence of Zombie Trump means that the actual vote does not reflect the will of the people, and attempt to choose a slate of electors that would back Mike Pence. That's not incredibly likely, but it is a possibility if the election is close enough; it'd be the functional end of American democracy though, so I'd rather that not come to pass.

Everything is going to be messy now though. Biden was winning fairly comfortably, and the race has been the most stable (by polling) since polling became a regular feature of American political life. Now if Biden wins, there will be cries that he has done so only because Trump got the virus. I'd have much preferred that Trump fell ill the day after the election.
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Unless Biden tests positive too, then we are back as we were :)

Actually, I apologise for making light of your excellent post. I can't help this feeling that this is playing into Trump's hands a little too much and he is behind it. But then I am just as bad as Karen form Facebook with all her conspiracy theories.
 
thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Unless Biden tests positive too, then we are back as we were :)

Actually, I apologise for making light of your excellent post. I can't help this feeling that this is playing into Trump's hands a little too much and he is behind it. But then I am just as bad as Karen form Facebook with all her conspiracy theories.
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Just found out that Mike Pence's Mrs is called Karen. Coincidence? Hm...
 
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Trump's already being airlifted to hospital. As a precaution. While receiving an experimental therapy.
 
Donald Day 2. ‘I am in hospital, a very wonderful, wonderful American hospital full of great great Doctors and nurses and machines the like of which you’ve never seen. Great machines, we are going to be rolling them out when I’m done. I’m here to supervise my recovery and have met with some good people today to tell them my treatment plan... they are out buying Domestos as I speak to you. I dont want you to worry... we will beat Sleepy Joe when we get this election show back on the road in 2022. In the meantime I’m going to have a beautiful, beautiful sleep I’ve just ordered the surgeon general to unplug this bleeping thing next to me and we’re good to go nightnights. Back tomorrow (I hope). God Bless America.
 
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I don't love the timing. Five months earlier and tens of thousands of lives would have likely been saved; a month later and he at least sees the consequences of his actions. Man can't even be considerate when catching a dread disease through his own stupid actions.
 
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The Trump Spreadathon is now at: the President, the First Lady, 2 Senators, 2 top aides/advisors, the president of a university, several journalists, and about a dozen workers at the debate. Expectations are that it'll rise. What a remarkable triumph of leadership and competence.
 
Schad said:
The Trump Spreadathon is now at: the President, the First Lady, 2 Senators, 2 top aides/advisors, the president of a university, several journalists, and about a dozen workers at the debate. Expectations are that it'll rise. What a remarkable triumph of leadership and competence.
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I thought spaffer led the field then septic Donny trumped him.
 
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