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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I can't wait til they notice things really took a nosedive when he announced his VP pick. I'm willing to bet that sooner or later, they will demand he dump Vance.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They would have to then lose Ohio's votes for VP because the Ohio filing deadline has already passed (Aug 7th) and they didn't change things before it

Ohio's deadline is the reason why the democratic party had their virtual rollcall thing recently

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Except they did push the deadline forward, but did not make the law to do that effective until September, or something like that. I'm convinced they did that on purpose, so they can accommodate a late Republican change but still have reason to complain about a late Democratic one.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That would require Don Jr to loose face with his father (he recommended Vance)

[–] OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

I'd bet that's a sacrifice Sr. is willing to make.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Are the Trumpets going to try to hang another of Trump's VPs? That was a record turn around time.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

And that's when you take them to court because it's too late in the election cycle, they've already printed out the ballots, blah blah blah.