Who is the GOP presidential candidate if Trump leaves?

[WilliamPlanke]

I think Pence is tainted....

[NurseJackie]

1. Romney? Cruz? Rubio?

Yuck... barf and puke!

Santorum?

Bachmann?

[Left-face]

31. A vote for Santorum is a vote for..

That frothy mix of...well,...you know..

[marlakay]

2. I am sure the leaders will find

A younger smiling sweet looking family man that is also a puppet willing to do anything to be pres.

[beachbumbob]

3. fall to Pence as he would be sworn as President and GOP has little choice, but unless trump resigns,

trump aint leaving

[dewsgirl]

4. Kasich?

[Doodley]

10. Yes. With every action is a reaction, and they will swing back towards the center.

[Garrett78]

25. There's nothing even remotely centrist about Kasich.

The GOP has, by design, shifted the Overton Window so much over the last several decades that perception is severely out of whack.

Never Trumpers, for the most part, still subscribe to horrific viewpoints.

[tblue37]

5. Nikki Haley and Mitt Romney ticket? nt

[global1]

6. Nickki Haley?

[leftstreet]

7. Ivanka!

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I know you posted that as a joke, but Cult 45 would vote for her just so they could "own the libs".

They would vote for a turnip for the same reason.

The Republican party in general has shown that experience, competence and integrity no longer mean anything to them.

[Kablooie]

8. Maria Butina

[C_U_L8R]

9. Romney is practically drooling.

Some kinda religious destiny crap

[Dave Starsky]

20. Romney was the only one talking about Russia being a major threat to the US.

Even I thought he was being absurd at the time.

So at least in matters of Russian collusion, he has plausible deniability.

[tanyev]

23. That White Horse Prophecy isn't going to be fulfilled all by itself!

[Anders8]

27. That would make Orrin Hatch really, really sad...

To think, he fell only one term short of his life's real ambition!

[CanonRay]

12. rMoney, for my money

[think4yourself]

13. Romney

Vulture capitalist.

[EarlG]

14. Will they be able to uncancel the primaries

they already canceled?



Alaska GOP Cancels 2020 Republican Presidential Primary, Joining 3 Other States

[fleur-de-lisa]

15. Cut out the middle man and just install Putin

[rampartc]

16. they will stick with president pence

we already know they will support taint..

[countingbluecars]

17. Larry Hogan,

the popular governor of Maryland.

[MineralMan]

18. Who cares? The Democratic candidate will carry 45 states if Trump leaves

due to this scandal.

[TidalWave46]

21. I'm thinking it might be Romney. NT

[MineralMan]

22. Then, we might just win 42 states.

We win, regardless.

[obamanut2012]

19. Romney, Weld, or Flake

[jmowreader]

24. Martin Shkreli, and with good reason

The GOP has got to throw the 2020 election. They have no option. Everyone except maybe Mitt Romney is tainted by their association with Trump, and Romney is tainted by not beating Obama in 2012. They also know they don't want to be the ones in the White House when the Trump Collapse happens in 2021.

Therefore, the only thing they can feasibly do is run the most fucked-up ticket in the history of politics; Martin Shkreli and Alex Jones would work for this. (The Constitution doesn't say he can't be president while he's in federal prison, so we'll go on the assumption that he can.) They then give them as little support in the election as possible. After they lose, the GOP cooperates with the Democrats in throwing the entire Trump administration and the twenty worst actors in Congress in prison. Then in 2024 maybe the fact that America's collective attention span is shorter than Trump's dick will convince the voters to give them another chance.

[salin]

34. Kasich turned down the offer to be VP if he got out of the race.

On the trumposlimeoscale he is clean. For the most part he has earned his "conservative (pre trump)" bonafides. He behaves decently - although we would find most of his policies far right - he is nowhere near as bad as Pence.

He hasn't been tainted by being in Congress and playing the role of feckless gop wilter to trump demand types as all gopers serving in congress since 2017 have had to do.

[Garrett78]

26. If Trump leaves (highly unlikely), few will volunteer to be a sacrificial lamb.

Because if Trump leaves, it means a good number of Republicans will have turned on the dear leader. That will enrage Cult 45 and splinter the Republican base. 2020 would be a landslide of epic proportion.

[rurallib]

28. Ivanka

[Left-face]

29. The only name would have to be...

"The second biggest loser".... Once Trump goes down the GOP is done for awhile.

[bearsfootball516]

30. Probably Romney, Cruz or Rubio.

[bluedigger]

32. Romney is the only guy who could pull a campaign organization together in haste.

Assuming this plays out for a few months more.

[salin]

33. Kasich

[librechik]

35. since it will be a short lame duck term, Romney or somebody like that will do.

I hear Jeff Flake is available