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Reginald Goodwin's avatar

For JD, he has the anchor of saying that he thought “Trump [is] America’s Hitler.” Rubio has photos on the Internet of him in oversized shoes. The opposition ads write themselves. The party is steeped in talking points and cliches, and has lost the ability to craft policies and convince large numbers of people to vote for them.

prehbine's avatar

Vance has lost all credibility and honestly the 32% magabilly base is not going to vote for a cuban refugee, full stop.

Teresa G's avatar

Plus jv has a wife who is not white and mixed colored children

James Byham's avatar

A significant minority of Republicans will not see little Marco as white .

33RR's avatar

trumplettes are a cult. They will not worship anyone else. We should just draw a face on a rotten pumpkin and tell them the spirit of their orange pedophile is contained within it.

Frederick Cox's avatar

How did such a brilliant young man like you enter my world? I am so grateful. By the way, I had an Aunt and Uncle, now deceased, he Argentinian and she canadienne-québeçoise, who lived in Buenos Aires together since the early 1960’s - and through the dictatorship (or dictatorships?). When Trump won in 2016 they told me everything that could happen - but it didn’t. But now since he took office in 2024, everything they said could happen is happening like clockwork, now, this time. They said do what you can locally to help your community - without endangering yourself.

33RR's avatar

During Deranged Don’s first reign of stupidity and disasters, I told a relative that it’s a darn good thing our government is set up as it is because there are people in Congress, in the Supreme Court, in the DOJ, in his Cabinet, throughout the federal government who are keeping him under control, but what if he gets back in and fills every possible position with a cult member who will not enforce our laws and will allow him to do whatever he wants? She said, “Oh, that won’t happen.” Yeah??? Time to f**king wake up.

Lamakū La'ameanoa's avatar

"TRUMPISM" MUST DIE WITH HIM!! No one should want a successor to carry on the shytstorm Trump has inflicted on us!

Pamela Horter-Moore's avatar

Oh, the Vice President is "the designated problem-solver"? So if J.D. Vance can't fix Trump's mess in Iran and elsewhere, it's his fault.

Just like former Vice President Kamala Harris was "the designated problem-solver" of Biden's administration on the immigration issue.

Historically, the vice presidency is not the best political position for an ambitious politician to be in if they want to be president. Their best chance as VP is the president's removal from office.

If they try to be president in their own right through the election process, they will be tarred by the failures of the administration they served under.

David's avatar

They're both putze's. The republican party will have a primary which neither will win.

Andy Smith's avatar

Fine by me if all these vile personages drop dead tomorrow!

sheryl jeffries's avatar

Trump has been pitting them against each other. I'm not sure which one should be the successor. They both are problematic. Trump tosses Vance under the bus most of the time. This war isn't going to wear well on either of them. I wish MAGA would go away.

James Byham's avatar

While they savage each other and trumpy sr . makes them look foolish he is paving the road for trumpy jr . to win the 28 primaries with a plurality , worked before .

Mary Senior's avatar

Trump has no intention of picking his successor because he is not leaving. He is already talking about running in 2028. He and Steve Bannon said they are working on getting the law changed so he can run for a third term.

Robert Goldbach's avatar

But some say that Trump will not live long enough to steal a third term; and even if he does, he will be so notably impaired, he would never win. Whether he lives or dies, it will still be destructive to the Republicans.

33RR's avatar

No need to worry about a third term. Deplorable Don will be institutionalized or dead before the end of this term.

James Byham's avatar

And it will be junior time !

David W. Sutton's avatar

Trump is weak, and gets weaker every passing minute. Hope justice comes for all of these dishonest, mean, incompetent, lying, greedy, criminals, who only care about themselves.

Howard Turner's avatar

At this point my guess is someone outside like Joe Rogan. The money wants someone they can ( buy) persuade. The followers want someone to tell that who to be mad at. The political people want someone to not get in the way. Especially if they put Rogan on CNN to make him visible to more people.

Robert Goldbach's avatar

Let's first recall that it was Junior who persuaded his daddy to pick Vance for VP, and the decision was almost instantly regretted. However, at the time, the line of thinking was that the prospect of Vance replacing Donald was seen as a significant deterrent to potential *assassins." Even so, we've seen a few attempts in a short period of time; there have probably been more that we were not told about.

Furthermore, you wrote, "Some donors appear interested in candidates who can maintain support among MAGA voters while also appealing to more traditional Republicans who never fully embraced Trump but remain within the party." Because MAGA spent time and resources alienating traditional Republicans and tossing them out, finding someone with such wizard-like powers in the GOP seems to be a futile quest, unless something changes significantly within the GOP. There are voters out there who are so angry they have vowed never to vote for the Republican party again, no matter who the candidate is.

john's avatar

From my first time voting (Barry Goldwater) up until Trump running I have been behind the Republican party. To watch him in his first debates abuse all around him and for so many supporting his crude behavior completely turned me away from the TRUE Republican ideals-where have we gone. Can't think of any one who would get my vote today

Dannie Cullen's avatar

https://youtube.com/shorts/-QWoBe8kilc?si=wqjheYlwe_hzhki1

I laughed out loud. I hope Trump sees this because nothing is better than seeing him flip out for being criticized or made fun of.

Diane Fallon's avatar

Rubio was born in Cuba. Can he run for president?

33RR's avatar

No. A president must be born in the United States.

Also 35 years old and lived here for at least the past 17 years (I think).

And you cannot be an insurrectionist or have aided or abetted an insurrectionist. This one disqualifies Deranged Don. He is clearly and unquestionably an illegal president.

Dan Sescleifer's avatar

Just looked it up. He was born in Miami.

James Byham's avatar

Of course he's a wingnut this supreme court will rubber stamp it.