Is it possible we could get a Trump/Fiorina or Trump/Cruz ticket?
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« on: May 02, 2016, 04:30:22 AM »

Imagine this: Trump either gets a majority of delegates or gets so close to 1237 that enough unbound delegates fear backlash and give it to him. However, it's my understanding that none of the delegates are bound for VP selection. The delegates are overwhelmingly going to be Cruz loyalists judging from all the reporting coming from the states. You do the math. This could get even more likely if Trump picks a crazy choice as VP, like Sarah Palin or Omarosa.
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2016, 05:27:48 AM »

But the delegates are still restricted by the fact that they'd have to pick someone who's willing to take the job.  I don't think the nomination counts if the person in question rejects it.  I doubt Cruz is even interested in running as the VP nominee if Trump asks him, let alone if it's being done against Trump's wishes.

Unless the VP nominee wants to go totally rogue, being nominated as VP still means that you have to spend ~3.5 months defending Donald Trump, and I don't think Cruz wants to do that.  Though as I said in another thread, I do think it would be funny if the delegates get so frustrated by Trump that they troll him by nominating a #NeverTrump VP candidate who refuses to endorse the top of the ticket.  Maybe Mitt Romney.  He could spend the fall going full-on Bulworth and talking about how people should not vote for the Republican ticket, because Trump isn't suited for the presidency.
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2016, 06:25:30 AM »

I think they'll swallow their pride to do their best in making sure the hag doesn't win the presidency.
Still hoping for Omarosa. Although I don't see the delegates nominating Omarosa. Trump will just have to make it very clear that he wants Omarosa as VP.

Trump/Omarosa would be a formidable ticket.
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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2016, 06:55:27 AM »

It's going to be Sessions or Gingrich
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2016, 07:00:16 AM »

Trump/Newt would be hilarious.
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2016, 07:52:32 AM »

Clinton would beat all of them
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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2016, 07:58:31 AM »


It would make the campaign more of a retro-90s experience than it already is, to see Gingrich as the attack dog against the Clintons.

And I would like to see a Franken vs. Gingrich VP debate.
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« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2016, 08:14:27 AM »

not a chance for either of those tickets. Cruz is too ambitious and Carly would never accept
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