(07-19-2024, 10:24 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(07-19-2024, 09:59 PM)mikesez Wrote: What if the bullets actually killed Trump?
Leave aside the mourning, the funeral, etc,
He hadn't announced any VP pick yet. 
What would have happened at the RNC? I doubt anyone has any idea.  If you were going to conspire to get Trump killed, you would have to believe that their backup candidate would be better for you than Trump, but no one knows who it would land on.  It's good that we dodged such chaos.

The uniparty would do whatever it took to put the warmonger Nikki in there. Maybe that was their goal all along. The irony is, the GOP will never get rid of Trumps. Ivanka and Don Jr would both be viable candidates in 2028.

I reject the term uniparty but yes the Reagan/Bush wing would have Haley as their first choice.
But I think Trump's people made a point of publicizing that the three final choices were Vance, Rubio, and Borgum.  It would have been those three and the old guard would have wanted Rubio.  But any of them could have won it, and the process would have been harmful to the party and the country.

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