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Who Will Succeed Trump in 2024?
The Political Insider ^ | 10 MAR 20200 | Wayne Dupree

Posted on 03/10/2020 1:25:31 PM PDT by ManHunter

If you haven’t noticed by now, the Democrats are focused upon surviving the Trump Presidency. If they can maintain control of the Deep State kakistocracy and keep its leaders out of jail, they believe they will have won. Even if President Trump wins a second term, which will mean they do not have as many dead voters as live Republicans, and that is not likely, there is no successor to Trump.

I worry about this with reckless abandon.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; replacement; trump
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To: lodi90
Senator Tom Cotton. Cotton is a huge supporter of Pres Trump. If he left the intel committee what would be the gain? Lankford made his point for whatever was the reason and Cotton stays for a reason. Cotton is ex combat military, Harvard law educated, and worked for a wall street law firm to pay off his student loans, then joined the military. Served as a congressman and on his way to second term senator. He is outspoken, not afraid to take on the media and open to public appearances. He is also quite factual with information, not personal opinions. I like VP Pence as well. Trump is supporting him at this point. I do not know why Nikki Haley is in play but I absolutely do not trust her for a variety of reasons. Not for VP or Pres. A number of other candidates to replace Pres Trump when he leaves will show up and too soon to narrow the choices to the few we consider now.
141 posted on 03/10/2020 3:47:48 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: treetopsandroofs
What worries me is how many HERE

Find yourself a good "Worry Cap" and wear it for the next 5 years..It won't relieve your angst but at the very least, it might make you feel better..............Sheesh!

142 posted on 03/10/2020 3:50:15 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Nikki Haley is a very effective campaigner. She is staying very active is building a base that sees her favorably. She both says and does all the right things.

We should prefer someone with executive experience in business or government and not just legislative experience. We have many Republican Governors who could emerge in the next few years to gain the lead. Potentially, a Colin Powell type could emerge inside the Trump Admin...I say Colin Powell, not necessarily in the ideology sense, but in the presumed moral high ground sense.


143 posted on 03/10/2020 3:52:44 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: PhiloBedo
Thanks.

d":^)

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144 posted on 03/10/2020 3:53:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Beware Hillary Clinton and the 25th Amendment.)
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To: princess leah

I agree.


145 posted on 03/10/2020 3:53:48 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: ManHunter
Let’s get through 2020 first.

I don’t know who will succeed Trump, but I will say this: Our expectations of a Republican/nationalist president have changed so dramatically that I think it will be decades — if ever — before another establishment GOP @sshole is ever elected president again.

146 posted on 03/10/2020 3:56:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think you are right, and furthermore any of those three will be an excellent president.


147 posted on 03/10/2020 3:56:26 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: treetopsandroofs
You knew that they would because they lack the intelligence to understand the actual concept being discussed and the integrity to read source material on the discussion which took place at the constitutional convention.

They made this lack of both intellect and integrity clear when they were unable to grasp (or even type out) “divided loyalty” and instead idiotically bleated out “birther” which I guess is a term in keeping with their intellects.

148 posted on 03/10/2020 3:58:03 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: GaryCrow

The demographic replacement will be insurmountable by then.


149 posted on 03/10/2020 4:00:52 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: ManHunter

Let’s concentrate on 2020 shall we? Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves.


150 posted on 03/10/2020 4:19:21 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: dfwgator

Let’s have a battle royal among our best. It worked in 2016 and produced the best possible candidate.


151 posted on 03/10/2020 4:19:45 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: treetopsandroofs

A lot of them (support ineligible potential candidates here)


152 posted on 03/10/2020 4:29:41 PM PDT by atc23
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To: ManHunter

Kanye.

I am not joking.


153 posted on 03/10/2020 4:36:43 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ManHunter

Nikki Haley or Ted Cruz, I hope (as of now).

Rubio and Kasick will certainly also run and maybe Romney (then 77)

I do not think Pence will compete because he would throw shade on Haley and they will not run against each other.

No one is like Trump. He is one of a kind. Reviewing all the times he spoke on video, with interviews by the likes of Oprah, Barbara WaWa etc. are very revealing and track his thinking throughout the years. He possibly came so far because he was always a “Democrat” and adored by them. Of course they hate him now.

So where do we get such a candidate. Someone who has been admired by a wide, wide variety of people and sectors? Beauty pageants, gambling casinos, boxing community, talk show hosts, politicians on both sides of the aisle. He established his smarts and can-do reputation well before he filed for President. His path is truly amazing and can never be replicated. Neither can Barry Soetero’s odd but effective path.

We can’t plan to fight the prior wars, but come up with something NEW.

Nikki and Cruz are no Trump, but at least they would give it a try. (I think).

The worst things George H. W. Bush did was disavow Reagan and the religious right (He said, “I’m religious, but I’m not a NUT about it.”) He also said, Read my lips, No New Taxes! LOL


154 posted on 03/10/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Barr and Durham! Get movin'. Time's awastin')
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To: libertylover
Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. Remember, in 2016 all the “experts” thought Mrs. Bill Clinton would win in a historic landslide.

She would have too, if Russia hadn't interfered.

155 posted on 03/10/2020 4:41:48 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: ManHunter
LS disagrees, but IMHO you have to look at history.

Historically, sitting VP has been a great position from which to gain your party’s nomination for POTUS.

The joker in that deck is the fact that (since the 12th Amendment) only two sitting presidents - Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan - have been succeeded by their VPs.

If Mr. Trump is reelected, I have hope that his administration will be good enough to make the nomination of Pence a long way from a kamikaze mission.

My hobby horse is the need - very soon - to give SCOTUS a case which will enable it to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan and open the floodgates of libel suits against the MSM.

It’s easy to say that overturning Sullivan would endanger talk radio hosts - and to argue that Sullivan is an unanimous opinion that isn’t going away. But.

Antonin Scalia pointed out that the Ninth Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
encapsulates the Federalist position on all rights - the rights articulated in the first eight amendments not excluded. Forced to add a bill of rights by amendment, the Federalists articulated expressly, in the first eight amendments, only those rights which historically had been abused by tyrants. Importantly, acceptance of the Bill of Rights as satisfying the pledge given by the Federalists in order to (narrowly) win ratification of the Constitution crucial to the Federalist project. Changing the rights of the people - changing any right of anyone - would have invited precisely the controversy the suppression of which was the whole purpose of the exercise.

It is thus that the Second Amendment, for example, protects “the” right of the people to KBA. It makes no effort to define that right, which would have been an invitation to controversy. It just refers to the right as already understood. But note the obvious fact that enshrining the RTKBA in the Constitution didn’t create a right to commit armed assault, let alone murder. Nobody has ever suggested such a thing.

Likewise the First Amendment protects “the” freedom of the press. And analogously, it does not create any right (which did not exist then or now) to print pornography and it did not change the right of any person to sue for libel. And, until 1964 and Sullivan, no court ever said it did.

To obtain the result which so enamored a unanimous Warren Court, Justice Brennan in Sullivan asserted that

". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”
. . . and the above analysis shows that that is poppycock. 1A had nothing to do with libel law.

The other salient point is that the wire services - which were a Nineteenth Century innovation created to conserve scarce, expensive telegraphy bandwidth - constitute continuous virtual meetings of all major journalists. That’s significant because

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
. . . meaning that you have to be “naive as a babe to believe” that major journalists, all connected together by the wire services, do not “conspire against the public.”

In fact, the conspiracy is in plain sight - it propagandizes the claim that “journalists are objective,” which

The herd defines “objectivity” as “going along with the journalism cartel.” Furthermore, it defines “liberal,” and “progressive” the same way - except that journalists are always and only described as “objective,” and fellow travelers are called “liberal” or “progressive” - but never “objective.” The reason journalists are socialist-minded is precisely that journalists assume that their business model - promoting bad news - is “objective.” “Negativity is objectivity” can be believed only by a cynic. Journalists are cynical about society and naive about government - thus, socialist-minded.

The upshot is that there is a journalism cartel which never libels “liberals” - but libels conservatives with abandon. Prevent conservatives from suing for libel, and the result is “fake news.” No facts can be established in court which journalists are required to respect.

Convince SCOTUS of the above - and get a proper restraining order against the wire services and their members/subscribers - and the complexion of public discourse would be quite different. And more like 1960 than like 2020.


156 posted on 03/10/2020 4:41:52 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: skinndogNN
Yes, I would think Nikki Haley is the favorite right now.

Among whom?

157 posted on 03/10/2020 4:42:29 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: shalom aleichem

gary senise


158 posted on 03/10/2020 4:44:51 PM PDT by stuckincali
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Pence is a great guy but he doesn’t have the gravitas or street fighter mentality that Trump has... Ivanka is too liberal, John Jr. would be good, Haley isn’t conservative enough, Cotton would be good and may emerge as a prime contender , Cruz doesn’t have the charisma, would like to see Candace Owens get her feet wet....hell guess I need to worry about 2020 and then 2024 God willing...


159 posted on 03/10/2020 4:48:08 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: DoughtyOne
I'm not ruling out Don Jr. because of that noise.

I doubt that anyone of importance will ask us for our opinion or, give a cr@p what it is, but I agree with you DoughtyOne.

160 posted on 03/10/2020 4:48:26 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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