Ivanka for VP...

[63splitwindow]

Yep, Don the Con's campaign has been nutty enough to where that is plausible...

[Stallion]

1. Hey She'd Be Better than Any Other Republican but Aren't they Both Residents of New York?

constitutionally prohibited

I'm telling you if she ever got in politics and put in some work at the legislative level she might be a great Republican candidate. She's poised and intelligent unlike her father. Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Penn with a degree in Economics

[oberliner]

10. No it's not

The President and VP can be from the same state.

[WillowTree]

13. According to he 12th Amendment they cannot be from the same state.

[Doctor Jack]

14. This is correct

At least I assume its the 12 amendment and not another one. All I know is that the president and vp need to be from different states.

[Aerows]

17. Cheney had to be from Wyoming

to ride on W.'s ticket. It's absolutely true.

[oberliner]

19. No it's not

Read the 12th Amendment.

[Aerows]

24. It may not be the 12th Amendment

Frankly, I don't remember which one it is. If somebody wants to go look it up, that's fine.

[oberliner]

25. Nothing in the constitution bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state

The 12th Amendment does say that electors cannot vote for a president and vice president who both reside in their home state. That may be the source of some of the confusion.

Check this out:

Claim: The U.S. constitution requires that presidential and vice-presidential candidates be from different states

FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/vicepresident.asp

[Aerows]

28. Not feeling Snopes lately.

They've been wrong on a few too key things. Great for internet scams ...

as long as you don't fall for one.

[HarmonyRockets]

32. I'll help you out.

Snopes isn't lying to you bud. Just curious, what have they been wrong about lately? And why would they lie about the 12th amendment?

Anyways, Article II states:

"The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves."

The twelfth amendment altered the electoral college process so that there was a separate ballot for VP. The rule of not being able to use both votes on a person from an elector's home state remained in effect.

So, the idea that it is unconstitutional for a President and VP to be from the same state is a myth. If Trump were to win NY, the state's electors would not be able to cast a vote for both of Donald and Ivanka. Like someone else pointed out, this can be avoided by having one of the candidates change his or her residence, as Cheney did in 2000 from Texas to Wyoming.

If Trump doesn't win NY (and there's no way he would), or if the race isn't extremely close (it's not within 29 electoral votes, so NY's electoral votes wouldn't matter), than it is all irrelevant anyways.

[oberliner]

21. It is not correct

Nothing in the constitution bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state.

[tritsofme]

22. Incorrect. There is no prohibition on a presidential and VP candidate from the same state

However if that ticket won their home state, only one candidate could receive it's electoral votes.

For instance, Obama could have chosen someone from Illinois as his running mate, and assuming the same results as 08 and 12, both could have served with no problem because Obama's electoral college victory was wide enough that neither needed Illinois' votes to clinch 270 votes, but the electors could still cast votes for one.

[oberliner]

18. That's not true

The 12th Amendment does not say that.

[BlackLivesMatter]

30. Presuming they had a shot to win NY

Otherwise it wouldn't matter practically

[RobinA]

34. Yes, I Have

seen her interviewed over the years and she does seem to have a working brain and is articulate.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. It's actually the least icky thing he could imagine for her. Nt

[63splitwindow]

3. Eewwwwwww... nt

[In_The_Wind]

4. Hahaha

Now I need to wash my brain.

[malaise]

5. She didn't even know that

she needed to register to vote

[niyad]

6. and she will turn 35 just before halloween.

[Stallion]

7. Ha! I Just Checked-She Turns 35 on October 30th Which I Guess Would Comply with 12th Amendment

nm

[63splitwindow]

9. And she could quickly change residency...

it's doable!!! Gotta be a place in the Cabinet for the boys too!!!

[Chan790]

8. Can't...or rather, shouldn't.

They're both NYC residents...the Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees for a party cannot come from the same state or else they have to forfeit that state's EC votes if they win the state.

Trump believes he will win NY...so he'd be an idiot to choose another New Yorker. She'd have to move to NJ...like immediately. It's not like she can move the day before being named...she has to be a legal resident and registered voter in her home state and I think the deadline is fast approaching for voter registration.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

11. Actually . . .

. . . Amendment XII would operate only to prevent the New York Electors from voting for Donald Trump for President and Ivanka Trump for Vice President. That is, were Donald Trump to win the New York "popular vote," he could receive all of the votes of the New York Electors, but those same Electors could not cast their second vote for Ivanka Trump as Vice President. They'd have to vote for somebody else, if they wanted their second (Vice Presidential) vote to count.

Of course, not one element of this scenario will ever come into play in any event.

[63splitwindow]

15. Remember, this is the guy who actually said...

that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and lose no support and his "base" cheered even more wildly. We have, indeed, entered the Twilight Zone of election cycles.

[Bucky]

12. Is that a character from Ice Age?

[Doctor Jack]

16. To be fair, she is quite pretty

I think she gets it from her mom and not the spitting walrus that is her father

[Bucky]

20. My mileage may vary

She looks not quite fully formed to me

[Doctor Jack]

23. To each his own and all that

[HarmonyRockets]

33. What do you mean by

not fully formed?

[Skittles]

26. she doesn't look like either one

[skylucy]

27. I agree. I think she is very pretty and seems to handle herself with class.

This, I believe, is a testament to how her MOTHER raised her.

[840high]

31. She is beautiful.

[Scootaloo]

29. Doeschn't anyone love Schidd the schlothf?