Saddling the president with a VP potentially from the opposite party is the one part of the Founding Fathers' original design for presidential elections that was such an immediate disaster they amended the Constitution to scrap it almost immediately, in 1804.https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1125434561171722242 …
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So the idea that a rogue VP not loyal to the president could be a danger up to & including violence was hardly a fanciful one to the people voting in 1804 to amend the Constitution to have no more Aaron Burrs.
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Time for Pence and Mayor Pete to settle this at ten paces
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We need more duels in Congress.
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