I guess the situation is pretty unlikely anyway, requiring: - As of December 14, Trump is alive but incapacitated - there is real division within the Republican party on whether he should be put in anyway - Trump (or, rather, Republican electors) win the election
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Replying to @Random832 @boltmeyer
The RNC would be required to convene a vote among their members over who the replacement should be, and the electors would be pledged to whoever won that vote
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Could they basically use this power to elect anybody they want? Pick somebody to run the election and then that person “bows out” for some random reason and the GOP chooses whomever they want? Could they do that?
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They can't do it *at will* but if the winning candidate in the primary withdrew then sure in theory There was a bizarre conspiracy theory going around Twitter that the DNC only let Biden win the election so they could replace him with Hillary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheJeffReport and
Why they would do this is unclear to me Conspiracy theorists of this nature have an unsettling obsession with Hillary as a specific human being
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So they couldn’t do this after the election but before inauguration?
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After what the Constitution considers the "real election", the December meeting of the Electoral College, if the President-elect dies they're replaced by the VP-elect - this is one of the holes filled by the 20th Amendment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheJeffReport and
However, from the Constitution's POV, the election in November isn't a real election and doesn't matter The winner of that election is still just "the person the electors have pledged to in their contract with the party"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheJeffReport and
So, yes, within that window of the month of November, if the candidate who won dies or withdraws etc the DNC or RNC can just vote on their own replacement for them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheJeffReport and
I still think that it's kind of obvious that the safest thing to do is would be for the DNC or RNC to just put the VP candidate in as the presidential candidate It's what everyone would expect and it creates the least appearance of a legitimacy crisis
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The fact that anyone at all is talking about this "Could we snub Mike Pence and make it Ivanka instead" scenario shows how rapidly the Republicans are unraveling
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheJeffReport and
One info wars guest has been on a kick of making Melania , a literal dictator for a while (couping Trump in the process). And QAnon still has a sizeable faction waiting for Pence to get replaced by JFK Jr.
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