I'm not concerned about a stalking horse candidate at the convention. Trump has it all sown up.
That's why Trump put his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in charge as Co-Chair of the RNC. The other Co-Chair Robert Whatley was part of George W. Bush's Florida recount team in 2000 and is a Trump insider who was on the phone call with Brad Raffensperger in Georgia in 2020.
Not possible. They already went down that road with "insurrectionist."
SCOTUS ruled that the requirements to be President are in the Constitution and that states cannot add to it. "Felon" is not a disqualifier in the Constitution.
It's not in Trump's nature to hide behind someone else. It's his nomination and I expect he fully intends to receive it.
The problem with letting someone else take it "in good faith" is that power corrupts. No one can guarantee that the stand-in (even if it is someone like Ben Carson) will step aside after the nomination. To many players will try to influence the person to keep the nomination so they can insinuate themselves into the campaign, and hopefully, the administration. There is just too much money to be made running a presidential campaign to trust a stand-in to step aside on a handshake agreement to "do the right thing."
No pillories, just concerns.
-PJ
I won’t vote for anyone but Trump.
It’s time to burn the ships.
How many more votes does Carson get than Trump, particularly if the D’s go hard charge after Carson? How many stupid suburban white chicks who deign to feel the tiniest fluttery feeling that something rotten is going on in the country these days would vote for Carson but faint at the mere thought of voting for Trump? Does Carson fail to get many people who would have eagerly voted for Trump to vote for him, particularly if Trump lets it be known he wants people to vote for Carson? How many black women might actually deign to vote for Carson because the thought of voting for Biden and Kamala is a bit icky, especially after the ick the two of them throw at Carson?
How much more over the top do the D’s fraud tactics have to be when faced by more people voting for R? How undeniably obvious will this fraud be?
So Carson becomes president? Can you really picture him as the type who actually wants that responsibility when there is a perfectly good alternative to give it up to?
Not everyone can be corrupted. In fact, if we were to measure the times in Carson’s and Trump’s lives each has given in to some sort of temptation, sexual, monetary, or otherwise, sin, or form of corruption, I’m sure Carson would come out on top in terms of NOT giving in.
Now, the #2 guy to Carson, could fall victim to corruption, but if this guy’s driving ambition in life is righteous vengeance against Deep State Players, he may eagerly bolt for a position that gives him this chance. And that position is not Pres. or VP, especially if you want to spend 10 hours a day, six days a week prosecuting people.
Does every person in every organization, whether the organization be an agency, private company, or whatever, who is approached about taking a higher level job they did not seek and are told they are a shoe-in for, because so many people think they are the best person, take this job? Or do some just not want the stress, hours, responsibility, visibility, or feel they really are the person for the job? How many agree to perform the job out of a sense of duty until a replacement is found for the person who left, get to move into the corner office during this time, but can’t wait until they can go back to their cubicle? Some people actually are like that.
If Trump is the only non-corruptible person out there to trust, we are truly in a sorry state and one assassin’s bullet or stroke away from tyranny.
No back up plan to Trump? This to me is very scary.