Hey guys, did you know that there's going to be a 2020 Republican debate? Tuesday, September 24th with...Business Insider Today...and Trump and Sanford both declined to show...
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-watch-republican-presidential-debate-2019-9

Yeah, seems kind of dumb, like he's giving up before the fight even started. I know they're all probably going to lose, but why not at least make your protest voice heard?

I'd be talking here if Ron Paul was running again ha. But he didn't even have a chance even in 2012 BEFORE Trump basically usurped the entire party so he certainly wouldn't have a chance in 2020 given that the party is like 95% behind Trump nowadays (not to mention he's getting up there in age these days)

I wonder what would happen to the primary if, however unlikely it is, Trump were to not only be impeached, but removed. Would he still be able to run for a second term? It doesn't look as astronomically unlikely as it used to that the Senate could convict, if the Republicans are actually that pissed about the Syria situation and the polls support it enough, which they're already at majority support among Dems and Independents so it's getting close, we're at Nixon levels of support for it now. If that happens, does the Republican primary begin in full force with Pence as the incumbent? Or does Trump remain at the top of the ticket, with Pence as VP? Or would Trump still be able to run, but would Pence also be a candidate, and Trump would have to choose a new VP? If Pence and Trump were both running, with Pence as the technical incumbent, who would the RNC support? Would they still support them enough to cancel primaries? Seriously, I get that this is unlikely, but I wish someone with more knowledge on the laws behind it would delve into this possibility because I'm really curious how this would work.

I'm aware of the primary vs. caucus differences, and the fact that having it be a democratic process is fairly new, but isn't disqualification also a separate process from the constitutional action of impeachment and removal, decided by the party, for that party? So in theory, if Trump is disqualified, he should be able to run as an independent, no? There's nothing in the Constitution about disqualifying people to run for office, is there?

Edit: Nevermind, googled my own question, it is in the Constitution, requires only a 50 vote majority, not two-thirds like removal does, which could be really interesting, if just a small handful of Republican Senators joined all Democrats to disqualify him to run in 2020. Which would still require the two-thirds majority to convict to remove before a separate vote could disqualify, but still, I could see Mitt Romney and a couple of blue state Republicans voting to disqualify while a bunch of other Republicans voted to remove but not disqualify. Much drama would ensue.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/11/12/republican-mark-sanford-ends-presidential-bid/2575484001/

I know no one is paying attention to this race, but Sanford dropped out. Just figured I'd mention in case you wanted to update the first post.

What I'm really curious about is 2024 (assuming Trump wins 2020 and can't run in 2024. If he loses 2024 he may just pull a Grover Cleveland and go for a non-consecutive second term).

Current frontrunners Prediction in no particular order:
Nikki Haley
Donald Trump Jr.
Ivanka Trump (could you imagine?)

Guys who think they will have a shot but really don't:
Mike Pence (too serious, he needs to lighten up a little)
Mitt Romney (too Mormon)
Mike Huckabee (too Baptist, for the record I mostly identify as a Southern Baptist and supported this guy in 2008 primaries)

Hilarious troll candidacy that will either be a laugh or somehow win the whole thing:
Kanye West

Any others I'm missing in these categories?

I likedRubio a bit until he started giving the same speech wherever he went. That just makes someone seem fake.

I think Nikki could be really good, plus electable. If it was a younger woman vs. an old white guy (Sanders, Bloomberg, Biden) she'd get a lot more of the women vote. And if it's her vs. Warren it takes away Warren's women advantage.

The other guys would probably lose simply because we don't usually have three terms of the same party.

(Unless the competition picks an extremist. No way they will win, in my mind, blue collar workers in industry jobs with a socialist candidate. I assume by 2024 the socialist experiment will have fizzled and they will have more realistic candidates by then. If not, no way a socialist will win against a normal candidate).

Being pleased about what the present pandemic is allowing for politically right now is pretty sick and sad if I say so myself.

MOD EDIT - User was warned for this post.  Attempting to circumvent a thread ban by posting topics here and in the Democratic Party thread that are relevant to the thread he was banned from and not relevant to these threads.

How were these posts not relevant to the threads they were posted in? Any point made, that is in anyway tied to the political opposition, has to be posted in the US Political thread? There seems to be plenty of this in the Democratic thread. Conservative/Republican politics is being talked about in there, so what is the problem here?

Being banned from the US Political thread means I can't post about politics in the Dem or Rep threads either? Suggesting that I don't post in the Dem safe space thread because it may automatically set some people off would be one thing, but not being able to post in the Republican safe space thread feels a little overbearing.