Thank fuck. This man can go down in history as the savior of the Republic if he fucks off and endorses someone else.

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    Actually pointless. Like, not a figure of speech. It’s too late to legally position a new candidate. It would be challenged. The Heritage foundation is already priming legal challenges, and who was that who owned the courts, again?

    Let’s imagine that he does step down. How would everyone agree on where to vote next? What’s the process to get them in the running again? What’s your guess on the timeline to do that unassailably vs serious legal opponents?

    I wonder what I would do if I were running a campaign for a felon and I needed to make it happen no matter what. I don’t have a good candidate but I do have propaganda networks and I do own judges everywhere, and my opposition has a hard time agreeing with each other, and they crumple apart like tissue paper on basic purity tests, and their candidate is old and has a stutter- his only seeming drawbacks that play to the media.

    I wonder what I could do to improve my position and involve my only remaining power assets.

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      You convince the other side to replace their candidate extremely late in the race. Its a psyop, and if its not its exactly what the Rubes need anyway. Vote Biden, and let’s get some ranked choice in this bitch.

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        Because it takes time to build a national campaign. You need 50 different states to sign off on the ballots. The DNC can basically hand-pick a candidate, but they would basically be telling every primary voter to get fucked.

        There would be legal challenges in 50 different states, and the GOP only needs one activist judge (and they have 6 on the SCOTUS).

        The last time there was a brokered convention was 1952.

        Plus, who? Who is the dream candidate? Who is so widely appealing that they would be unanimously accepted by the Democratic party leadership and the voters? Who has the leadership qualities, the experience, the confidence, the name recognition, and the credentials to beat the shit out of Trump? And where the fuck have they been?

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              Hard to say. He didn’t look like a great candidate until he was Prez.

              I’m not saying let’s throw caution to the wind or let’s make a huge mess.

              Only that it can has happened and worked. It does not mean it will ever again.

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        Because it’s a huge undertaking and there are different times for ballot eligibility in every one of the 50 states. When do you think the candidate would be chosen? This week? Ready in the wings already and on the ballots?

        These bureaucracies move at such a slow pace there was legitimate concern that BIDEN wouldn’t be on the ballot in time because the DNC wasn’t moving quick enough. That was months ago.

        Furthermore there’s the wheels of public opinion and moving those in lockstep with the speed it would take to create an alternative is something that takes so long that candidates often begin campaigning the year before the primaries.

        There is no other candidate and this is not a personal take but a logistical one. It’s too late.

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            You know the states make their own rules about who’s allowed to be on the ballot, right?

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              I’m sure the people not voting for trump will know the name of the person to write in after campaign advertisements are done dumping millions into states they won’t make ballot.

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                Yes, giving up both the incumbent advantage and the “having your fucking name on the ballot instead of being a write-in” advantage is definitely a foolproof path to victory! I see no flaws in this plan!