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In reply to the discussion: I just heard something interesting from a Rethug Insider here in Philly [View all]Red Oak
(697 posts)My thinking is that the Repugs will want to run Nikki Haley as their candidate. As another historic candidate if she should win, she would match up against VP Biden well, maybe saving the Repugs Senate majority even if she loses the Presidency. Trump is sinking the GOP ship and Pence, while better than Trump, doesn't save the Presidency or the Senate due to his butt-licking Trump for 3.5 years.
Trump resigning is the easy part of the plan and it has nothing to do with his ego. He's gone bankrupt many times because he is such a poor businessman. He never asks to go bankrupt, the banks tell him he is bankrupt. Trump leaves the bankrupt mess he created and someone else gets to to clean up the mess while Trump lies and declares victory. That's what will happen here. The Repug establishment tells him he's gone (Sheldon Adelson, et. al.) and he's gone. Funding pulled, pardon offered. Trump's gone. Pence is now President and pardons Trump. Pence/Haley will not be competitive if Pence pardons Trump, so Pence must pardon, then take a powder himself and leave the field to be with his "Mother".
What I can't quite figure out is how we get from Pence/Haley to Haley/??? What forces President Pence not to run? Who do the Repugs select as Haley's VP?
That's my prognostication on what will happen. First steps, Trump resigns in the next four weeks and Nikki Haley is nominated as President Pence's VP. All this has to occur reasonably before the GOP convention in August.