A survey of the mostly terrible replacement options the GOP will have if Trump and Pence both go down
If somehow Trump resigns or is removed from office, things could get crazy fast for Republicans. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images At this stage of the Ukraine scandal and impeachment proceedings, there’s no reason to think Donald Trump is in any imminent danger of losing his job. Yes, impeachment by the House is , more probable than not.
Any post-Trump scenario begins with Mike Pence. The obvious figure who could keep a party together composed of MAGA folk and other sorts of conservatives who for one reason or another dumped Trump, it would be Mike Pence. He’s been loyal to POTUS to the point of embarrassing sycophancy. Yet before he joined Trump’s ticket, he was a rigidly conventional conservative with many friends among his fellow House Republicans.
From the beginning, [Trump] has appeared determined to implicate as many members of his administration as possible in his scandal—Vice President Mike Pence heading the list….Indeed, Pence seems to have been involved up to the eyeballs in the Ukraine plot. His team’s messaging—Yes, he pressed the Ukrainians to investigate corruption, but he never appreciated that Trump’s true purpose was to pursue the Bidens—fails the laugh test.
But any scenario where Trump is driven from office by Republicans as well as Democrats has Romney, already a regular and sometimes vociferous Trump critic, being loud and proud and in the lead. That would make him a most unlikely figure to heal a party wounded and probably still divided over the fall of the 45th president.
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