If Trump does decide to quit and run home to mommy, who do you think the GOP would pick

[Quixote1818]

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at the convention at the last minute? Pence, Nikki Haley? If Trump goes out they still need his cult. Thoughts?

Editing to point out that he would likely finish his term but would say he isn't going to go for a second term.

I know it is unlikely. Just curious what people think.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It won't be Ivanka, Jared, or Junior.

[TheBlackAdder]

32. I hope he runs to mommy, she's been dead for quite some time.

[Phoenix61]

2. He won't quit before the election.

If he were to win, I could see him stepping down then due to “medical issues.”

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Pence to suck up to the evangelicals.

Or Romney, he is salivating at the thought.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I doubt they would risk Nikki. She has a "future" as a moderate Repub...

or at least that's the snake oil they're selling.

I suppose they'd let Pence take the fall. Losing a presidential election is seldom good for your presidential future.

[Aristus]

6. Plus, she's a woman of color.

I don't care how solid her Talibangelical credentials are, and neither does the RNC. As you pointed out, she fills a useful niche for them as a 'moderate' Republican ( ) , but there's no way the RNC would ever let her get anywhere near the White House.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I suppose that would be a 'reason' to let her have a token run at it...

one shot and back to obscurity for her.

[Aristus]

9. Possibly.

Michael Steele's entire tenure as chairman of the RNC during the Obama administration was so they could say: "See we got ourselves a colored feller, too!"

[MuseRider]

27. I love your use of Talibangelical.

Every now and again I will mention the Talibornagin's and get the strangest looks from people. Nice job.

[Aristus]

34. I can't claim such originality. I heard it from someone.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Lindsay is squirming... me! me! me! me! pick me!

The clowns always get in line. The way Graham sees it, he didn't put his time in with Trump for nothing. As Ann Romney famously and unfortunately said "So I think it's our turn now".

Just watch Bloomberg swoop in and punk them all.

[Alliepoo]

7. I was thinking

Perhaps Mitt, but since he found a little bit of his spine and dissed dump that they might be a little ticked off at him. That brings me to a seeming moderate, reasonable, Kasuck who is absolutely the opposite of moderate. Or reasonable. I think he’d fit right in with the image they’d want to project (plus he hates women having any autonomy over their body and he hates unions and workers rights). Haley would be a shoo in for veep no matter who they’d nominate.

[Wounded Bear]

10. I think Mitt will be keeping his powder dry for 24...nt

[AleksS]

25. Yup. Once the name of Trump is toxic, he plans to

Ride in and say how he was anti trump before it was cool to be anti trump.

And by 2024, the trump name will for sure be toxic.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Mitt Got Smoked In 2012

It was "only" 5 million popular votes, but nearly 62% of EC votes went to Obama.
Now, given the toxicity attached to republics, he would get creamed!!!
There would go any thought of 2024.

[salin]

33. To have a chance to win they need trump's base - a moderate, won't do.

Cruz, Cotton, Gingrich (too old, I hope) or Pompeo.

All will lose. Just not quite as badly as Trump would lose.

At least that is my speculation.

[Ohiogal]

11. No way Mitt.

He voted to impeach, and the core trumpsters are ready to crucify him over that. He’s too moderate for the rabid racist GOP, he walked in a BLM protest!

No way Haley.

It would have to be Pence, as disgusting a thought as that is. He’s like Trump Light.

[totodeinhere]

12. It would almost certainly be Pence.

I would be interested to see some Biden/Pence polling to see what that race might look like. I think Joe would probably rated as the favorite right now. But four months is almost an eternity when it comes to elections. And sometimes they do come back. In 1988 Bush was behind Dukakis by double digits in August but came back to win.

[madville]

13. Nikki Haley for sure

They need some suburban women voters to come back. Plus they can play the first woman president angle and all that.

[grantcart]

20. +1

[LiberalFighter]

14. Putin

[helpisontheway]

15. Nikki Haley. Nt

[CanonRay]

16. I think it would be Pence

He's got many of Trump's failings, plus a few loose screws of his own. He's boring and a terrible campaigner, but they lose the Taliban vote is they screw him over. He'd be perfect.

[roamer65]

17. Pence would take the oath, and have the shortest presidency since James Garfield.

Only one in office a shorter time than Garfield was William Henry Harrison in 1841.

199 days versus 31.

[kskiska]

18. Liz Cheney is gunning for it.

She's been positioning herself as an anti-Trumper.

[TeamPooka]

19. Pence would become the incumbent and would run for re-election, in your scenario

[Quixote1818]

35. I meant if Trump says he is going to finish his term but not go for a second term. nt

[TeamPooka]

38. Then the GOP would make him resign so Pence could run as an incumbent

[Chainfire]

21. I see no reason to believe that they would select Pence.

If the Republicans get a chance to dump Trump, they will want to make a fresh start. I can't see them wanting to elect the biggest boot-licker the country has ever seen.

[DFW]

22. Pence would be sworn in if Trump bails

No matter how flimsy the circumstances, the Republicans won't deny the nomination to a sitting president of their own party, even if that seat isn't even warm yet.

They WILL write off the election, and then get deadly serious in 2024. We'll have some serious SCOTUS tinkering to do and a very short time in which to do it comfortably.

[BluesRunTheGame]

23. Ted Nugent

[Yavin4]

24. Easy. Tim Scott.

This way they can blame the Black guy when they lose.

[moondust]

26. Pompeo wants it.

He's a ~56-year-old Koch puppet with a lot of raw ambition.

[tinrobot]

28. Depends on when he quits. After the convention, Pence.

If it's before the convention, there could be a floor fight and who knows what will float to the top.

[eleny]

29. Sen. Tom Cotton - the right wing maniac from Arkansas

He's the opposite of Biden in age and policy.

The Republicans would flock to his candidacy.

He'd rise like a rocket.

[SoonerPride]

31. Chris Christie

H

[Generic Brad]

36. Tom Cotton wants in

He strikes me as the kind of person who would stab his opponents with the determination of a Highlander to get what he wants.

[Greybnk48]

37. Ted Nugent? Kid Rock? Dennis Rodman? Omarosa?

Who the fuck knows?