re: #316 makeitstop
Greg Olear has a theory that nearly made me vomit. He thinks it has to do with residency restrictions for Pres and VP…
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[ shudder ]
electoral-vote.com (my first stop every morning) covered this today:
A third possibility—and this is really a longshot—is that Trump plans to dump Mike Pence and replace him with a running mate from New York. The problems with this theory, even if we grant the jettisoning of Pence, is that there it’s hard to imagine what New Yorker would make sense on the ticket, as the GOP bench there is paper-thin. Further the rule against electors casting votes for both a president and a vice president from the elector’s home state would only matter if Trump and his New Yorker running mate won in New York, which is never going to happen. Still, we’re a full-service political analysis site, so we cover all the possibilities we can think of, regardless of how remote.