2018 Presidential Election

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mspence said:
I'm surprised Richie, Norton-Stewart and Irving are speaking, they probably can't stand Duke.
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This along with the Senate Majority leader ,the Speaker of the House and the Republican National Committee chair and presidential nominee from 2006 pretty much puts the Republican party endorsement on Duke. The only one missing -other than a VP-is former President Glen Allen Walken and I imagine Duke is ok with that...
 
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MountainDew17

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Akrotiri, Cyprus- Shots have been fired at the main gate of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Part of the Sovereign Base Areas, or SBAs, RAF Akrotiri is legally British territory. The base has moved towards a full lockdown we're being told the MOD will make a statement shortly.
 

heatmaster

MountainDew17 said:
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Shots Fired at RAF Akrotiri

Akrotiri, Cyprus- Shots have been fired at the main gate of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Part of the Sovereign Base Areas, or SBAs, RAF Akrotiri is legally British territory. The base has moved towards a full lockdown we're being told the MOD will make a statement shortly.
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I can imagine Seaborn will wait until the 15th to make any announcement; that's how I would construct the story, as the story of Seaborn's running mate would dominate the Sunday morning programs and completely kill whatever positive vibe that Duke hopes to get out of Denver. It's gonna be a fun story to read!
 

MHurtado09

I only started reading the thread regularly in the summer of 2020. What exactly was it about Franklin Hollis that was so disastrous that enough Democratic electors defected and threw the V.P. election to the Senate?
 

Marky Bunny

MHurtado09 said:
I only started reading the thread regularly in the summer of 2020. What exactly was it about Franklin Hollis that was so disastrous that enough Democratic electors defected and threw the V.P. election to the Senate?
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It was a combination of things, he was rushed into the post announced just weeks after Seaborn won the nomination. No other candidates where vetted. The fact he was a billionaire wasn't liked, he was also a poor campaign, performed poorly during the VP debate, and in the end he just pissed off enough Democrats to get electors to vote for alternate candidates.
 

asupackman

Marky Bunny said:
It was a combination of things, he was rushed into the post announced just weeks after Seaborn won the nomination. No other candidates where vetted. The fact he was a billionaire wasn't liked, he was also a poor campaign, performed poorly during the VP debate, and in the end he just pissed off enough Democrats to get electors to vote for alternate candidates.
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Wasn't there also something about Hollis' company closing a major manufacturing center in one of the states the Seaborn/Hollis won, costing that state a lot of well paying jobs and leading to the electors from that state refusing to support Hollis? Maybe I'm misremembering.
 

Marky Bunny

asupackman said:
Wasn't there also something about Hollis' company closing a major manufacturing center in one of the states the Seaborn/Hollis won, costing that state a lot of well paying jobs and leading to the electors from that state refusing to support Hollis? Maybe I'm misremembering.
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Reply, yes in Minnesota, that's the part of pissing off Democrats.
 

WestWingNut

heatmaster said:
The convention making the selection? That's a novel idea, kinda like what Adlai Stevenson did in '56! If the delegates were to decide, it might work; as it might add a competitive edge to the process, prompting some ambitious politicians to put themselves forward (e.g. John F. Kennedy vs. Estes Kefauver)
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I believe Peter Gault wanted to do that if he became the nominee in 2018.
 

lord caedus

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BREAKING: Seaborn campaign about to announce VP nominee

Saturday, July 9th, 2022

NBS has learned that the Seaborn presidential campaign will announce the president’s choice of running mate within the hour.

A source within the Seaborn campaign said that the campaign will reveal the nominee via text and email to those who donated to the campaign or who signed up to follow campaign updates, before the nominee joins the president for their first joint appearance in Philadelphia later tonight.

In contrast to the open process the Seaborn campaign exhibited in whittling down the president’s shortlist, the campaign has kept a tight lid on who the president has decided from his final shortlist of seven names. Several names have been mentioned, including senators Alex Howard (WA), Ben Newell (CO), governor Jarrod Daniels (MN) and former governor Bobby Tyler (VA), but NBS cannot confirm the which of the last public list of candidates made it to the final stage.
 

WestWingNut

lord caedus said:
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BREAKING: Seaborn campaign about to announce VP nominee

Saturday, July 9th, 2022

NBS has learned that the Seaborn presidential campaign will announce the president’s choice of running mate within the hour.

A source within the Seaborn campaign said that the campaign will reveal the nominee via text and email to those who donated to the campaign or who signed up to follow campaign updates, before the nominee joins the president for their first joint appearance in Philadelphia later tonight.

In contrast to the open process the Seaborn campaign exhibited in whittling down the president’s shortlist, the campaign has kept a tight lid on who the president has decided from his final shortlist of seven names. Several names have been mentioned, including senators Alex Howard (WA), Ben Newell (CO), governor Jarrod Daniels (MN) and former governor Bobby Tyler (VA), but NBS cannot confirm the which of the last public list of candidates made it to the final stage.
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Way to stick it to Duke!
 

lord caedus

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BREAKING: Seaborn names Tyler as running mate

Saturday, July 9th, 2022

President Sam Seaborn's campaign announced that former governor Robert "Bobby" Tyler of Virginia will be his running mate, making Tyler the first African-American to appear on a major party ticket.

"President Seaborn has chosen former Governor Bobby Tyler to be our VP nominee," a text sent out to supporters and donors stated. "Watch the first Seaborn-Tyler rally live at 4PM EST." the text finishes, embedding a hyperlink to a livestream of a campaign rally in Philadelphia later today.

An email announcing the selection was simultaneously sent to those subscribed to the campaign's mailing list.

Tyler, who served as governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022, is a self-described as a "moderate progressive" and has been credited for helping Seaborn become the first Democrat in over 50 years to win Virginia during the president's first campaign in 2018. Since he left office (Virginia state law does not allow its governors to seek immediate re-election), he has joined the board of a Virginia non-profit that advocates education reform.

Vice President Jack Hunter, who was informed of Seaborn's selection just before the campaign's announcement, issued a brief statement saying that Tyler's nomination was a "historic occasion" that showed "great progress towards making Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality."

If elected, Tyler would be the first African-American vice president, and the first person of color to serve as vice president since Charles Curtis, a Native American and member of the Kaw nation, who served as vice president from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover.
 
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