re: #132 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

re: #113 Mattand

LOL, how’s this for a nightmare scenario:

1) Pence is replaced by Haley because Trump is “draining the swamp”.

2) Trump leaves office for whatever reason.

3) Haley as acting POTUS runs for and wins in 2020 because Americans are fucking idiots (particularly independent voters) and are like “Ooooh, the GOP ran a non-white woman! See, they’re just as liberal as those libs!”

Haley then goes on to keep promoting the same evil polices the current GOP does and gets away with it because she doesn’t come off as insane.

The things I think of when I read headlines.

In case it hasn’t been pointed out, 1 can’t happen without congress

See, I read this scenario as “Trump replaces Pence with Haley on the 2020 Republican ticket”, since even if the Admin might somehow persuade the Veep to resign, they would still have to nominate a replacement - and have them approved by both Houses of Congress. Not really likely, IMO.
However, if Trump was trying to attract ANY additional 2020 voters beyond the red-hat mouthbreather “base”, Nikki might be a “rational” choice, as you outline in 3 above: still “insane” IMO, but rational….