enhanced_deficit
10-27-2019, 09:11 PM
Did not see this coming, could be clever reuse of MAGA's 'surrunded by the best' narrative by some in GOP to push Pence who is generally not seen as "the best" among conservatives.
Source is Newsweek but reporting checks out:
Republican Senators 'Want Mike Pence' as President, Would Vote Trump Out in 'Secret Ballot,' MSNBC Host Says By Jason Lemon On 10/22/19
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough argued on Tuesday that most Republican senators "want Mike Pence" as president over Donald Trump, saying they would rapidly replace the commander in chief if they could vote in a "secret ballot."
"If there were a secret ballot in the Senate this morning, [Vice President] Mike Pence would be president by noon," Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who is now an independent, said on his Morning Joe show. "It is that clear. They want Trump out. They want Mike Pence in. They want to return to conservative principles. They want a return to conservative issues."
If Trump were removed as president, the official line of succession is Pence and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Washington. But most analysts do not believe that Trump's removal from office—let alone Pence's—is plausible given current political realities.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senators-mike-pence-vote-trump-out-secret-ballot-msnbc-host-1466938
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“Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirerowner David Pecker to stop the story,” Sherman wrote. “Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirer published the story (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-affair/)in print on June 5, headlined ‘Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!'”
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Source is Newsweek but reporting checks out:
Republican Senators 'Want Mike Pence' as President, Would Vote Trump Out in 'Secret Ballot,' MSNBC Host Says By Jason Lemon On 10/22/19
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough argued on Tuesday that most Republican senators "want Mike Pence" as president over Donald Trump, saying they would rapidly replace the commander in chief if they could vote in a "secret ballot."
"If there were a secret ballot in the Senate this morning, [Vice President] Mike Pence would be president by noon," Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who is now an independent, said on his Morning Joe show. "It is that clear. They want Trump out. They want Mike Pence in. They want to return to conservative principles. They want a return to conservative issues."
If Trump were removed as president, the official line of succession is Pence and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Washington. But most analysts do not believe that Trump's removal from office—let alone Pence's—is plausible given current political realities.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senators-mike-pence-vote-trump-out-secret-ballot-msnbc-host-1466938
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“Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirerowner David Pecker to stop the story,” Sherman wrote. “Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirer published the story (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-affair/)in print on June 5, headlined ‘Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!'”
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