In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75.

  • worldwidewave
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    Short of a major heart attack, Trump isn’t giving up one iota of power. Really helps to draw a contrast between the parties, where one guy is willing to step down and the other is prepared to crash the plane with us all in it.

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            215 months ago

            They wouldn’t throw him in prison even if he could get there. They would put him on one of their propaganda “news” channels and let him go to town. They can subtitle whatever they want for the locals so he can say whatever.

            But he’ll never get there. He has a permanent secret service escort that probably isn’t going to be cool with defecting to russia.

        • Sabata
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          85 months ago

          A good plan B if he was capable of planning on his own.

        • Pennomi
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          75 months ago

          I highly doubt the Feds would allow that.

      • @[email protected]
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        315 months ago

        I’m not so sure I agree that he will be held accountable for his actions if he doesn’t win. I think he still narrowly avoids prison even if he doesn’t win, or maybe only spends like 3 days maximum in prison, sadly.

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          295 months ago

          I really don’t think his Supreme Court is going to allow him to have a custodial sentence. They showed they were fully on the Trump train by finding immunity in the constitution when it plainly reads otherwise.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          175 months ago

          There’s also the possibility of house arrest. I’ll take that.

        • @[email protected]
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          125 months ago

          He is not a healthy man, Trump will die before he’s held accountable for anything. He’s lived a long life of being a terrible person and the only consequence he’ll face for it is the stress of court cases through his final years and the knowledge that only 40ish% of voters would vote for him again.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 months ago

            Nah, the miracle of modern medicine with being able to afford the best doctors in the world will keep him for many years to come.

        • @[email protected]
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          105 months ago

          You may be absolutely correct, but we know for a fact that he won’t be held accountable if he does win.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        I think it’s because he knows that if he is elected he’ll be President until old age and unhealthy living kill him, whether that’s two years from now or twenty.

        “You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said.

        And who knows what the remaining government of Trumpistan will choose to do for his replacement after that.

      • teft
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        65 months ago

        I definitely would not be able to remain as calm as Mr Buttigieg in this exchange.

      • @[email protected]
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        315 months ago

        He was forced to, how? Nobody has the power to force him do anything.

        He read the writing on the wall and stepped aside. Something Trump would never do.

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        He was pressured to step down and then was ultimately willing to listen and do so. There was no method to force him to step down – he had more than enough delegates locked in to win the nomination if he wanted to keep going.

      • @[email protected]
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        215 months ago

        Or he made sure to stand strong strategically (as anyone running would do) and stepped down at a time to maximize effectiveness.

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      65 months ago

      Was Biden not stubbornly refusing to step down for so long, until his party forced his hand? I think Democrats wanted someone younger than him in 2020 too. I think we’re giving Biden too much credit here.

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        255 months ago

        You can bet that at least the last week of that was a matter of keeping up appearances. The transition went smoother than it had any right to, and that doesn’t happen without a lot of behind the scenes planning.

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        25 months ago

        We must remember that Biden is a politician who arguably plagiarised lines of a speech from Kinnock, sinking his '87 campaign.

        He’s not some paragon of virtue and perfection.

        His greatest achievement is also working with the Republicans. And look at how much respect that got him from that party.

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      Willing to step down is giving him too much credit. He was pushed out because Dems know he’ll lose. The parties are the same. It’s just business. They don’t love or care about you.

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          15 months ago

          Yeah like how convince people to resign after doing something terrible. It wasn’t Biden’s idea. You didn’t hear all the stuff he was saying after the debate? Come on

          • Dadd Volante
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            65 months ago

            It’s almost like he had the self awareness to change his mind when presented with compelling, new information.

            It’s what mature adults do

            If you think the only way any adult can change their mind is if they’re forced to, it speaks more of you than them.

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              The new and compelling information was that they wanted his ass out.

              Damn. You Biden’s #1 fan. And think so highly of politicians. It’s business. People don’t want to lose money and power. Biden isn’t immune to this.

              • Dadd Volante
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                35 months ago

                Yes it was. Gold star for you.

                I must be his #1 fan because reasons.

                Have an ice cream cone or something man. It’ll help that attitude.

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                  I knew it. You’re in love with him. You wanna share a cone with him and accidentally (but actually purposefully) go for the last lick together, pause and look into each other’s eyes bashfully, then proceed to make out. So obvious that’s what you wanna do.

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            35 months ago

            59% of Republicans want someone younger than Trump as president.

            Republicans also don’t want Trump to step down.

            At least they’re consistent in not knowing what they want.

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              15 months ago

              That’s one from one survey. And even so, that doesn’t mean that’s gonna sway them away from not voting for the guy. They’d still vote. People wouldn’t vote for Biden so Dems had to change. That’s a big difference.

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      one guy is willing to step down

      81 year old man dogpilled by his party during a possibly fatal respiratory illness.

      Don’t give Biden too much credit here.