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Donald Trump And His Two Vice Presidents: Horrible Mistreatment!

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Donald Trump is one of 10 Presidents who have had two Vice Presidents, while Franklin D. Roosevelt actually had THREE Vice Presidents in his 12 years and 39 days in the White House.

The list includes:

Thomas Jefferson—Aaron Burr and George Clinton

James Madison—George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry

Andrew Jackson—John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren

Abraham Lincoln—Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant—Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson

Grover Cleveland—Thomas Hendricks and Adlai Stevenson I

William McKinley—Garret Hobart and Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt—John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, and Harry Truman

Richard Nixon—Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford

Donald Trump—Mike Pence and JD Vance

The relationships between these ten Presidents and their Vice Presidents was often difficult and controversial, particularly so with Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson; John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson; and John Nance Garner and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

But it is becoming clear that the relatonship between Mike Pence and Donald Trump was probably the worst imaginable, including Trump endangering Pence by inciting the January 6 US Capitol Insurrection, which included extremists mounting a noose to hang Pence if they had been able to reach him.

Additionally, it is clear that JD Vance has a nightmare scenario with Donald Trump, as he disagreed with the Iran War inception, and now is being used as a foil to be blamed if the supposed Memorandum of Understanding ending the war fails, as Trump has been undermining Vance since the day he took office as Trump’s second Vice President.

Vance is in a no win situation, as his boss, Donald Trump, is mercurial, and no one in their right mind would envy Vance being answerable to the unstable, corrupt, immoral President!

If Kamala Harris Wins Presidency, She Would Be 16th Vice President To Become President!

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If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the Presidency in November 2024, she would become the 16th Vice President to succeed to the Presidency.

There have been 49 Vice Presidents, so only about 30 percent have made it to the White House.

Four, before Harris, have made it by election (Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, H W Bush); eight by death of the President; one by resignation (Ford); and two winning the Presidency later than the next term (Nixon and Biden)

The list includes:

John Adams after George Washington 1797–Election
Thomas Jefferson after John Adams 1801–Election
Martin Van Buren after Andrew Jackson 1837–Election
John Tyler after William Henry Harrison 1841–Death
Millard Fillmore after Zachary Taylor 1850–Death
Andrew Johnson after Abraham Lincoln 1865–Death
Chester Alan Arthur after James Garfield 1881–Death
Theodore Roosevelt after William McKinley 1901–Death
Calvin Coolidge after Warren G. Harding 1923–Death
Harry Truman after Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945–Death
Lyndon B. Johnson after John F. Kennedy 1963–Death
Richard Nixon 8 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower 1969
Gerald Ford after Richard Nixon 1974–Resignation
George H. W. Bush after Ronald Reagan 1989–Election
Joe Biden 4 years after Barack Obama 2021

Concept Of Political Coalition Against Donald Trump: Does History Tell Us It Could Work In America?

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Thomas Friedman, esteemed columnist for the NEW YORK TIMES, suggested in a recent column that the concept of a political coalition against Donald Trump might be the way to prevent him from coming back to power in the Presidential Election of 2024.

So Friedman suggests the following possible coalition tickets of a Democrat and an anti Trump Republican:

Joe Biden–Liz Cheney

Joe Biden–Lisa Murkowski

Kamala Harris–Mitt Romney

Stacy Abrams–Liz Cheney

Any Klobuchar–Liz Cheney

Friedman makes the comparison to the present coalition government in Israel, but Israel has a Prime Minister and a parliamentary system, which is totally different than our Presidential-Congress system of separation of powers.

And if one looks at past past attempts to have a Vice President who is not part of the majority party at the time, just look at John Tyler, not a Whig, under William Henry Harrison, who then had horrible time and constant turmoil after Harrison died after one month in office in 1841.

Or even better, Andrew Johnson, NOT a Republican, running with Abraham Linoln in 1864, and succeeding him after six weeks, and the horrible relationship and disaster of Johnson as President, facing impeachment and constant vitriol, much of it incited by his own prickly personality.

There was talk in 1968, of Hubert Humphrey selecting Nelson Rockefeller; of 2004, of John Kerry selecting John McCain; of 2008, of John McCain selecting Joe Lieberman. None of those would ever have been able to work out, and elect Humphrey, Kerry, or McCain.

Also, in the run up to 2020, some thought of a John Kasich-John Hickenlooper unity ticket, as an alternative to Donald Trump, and it never got off the ground!

And really, Liz Cheney, with strong right wing views on every topic except the danger of Donald Trump, paring with Biden? That is NOT serious, and Stacy Abrams or Amy Klobuchar paring with Cheney, so two women on the ticket, really?

And Mitt Romney running with Harris, really, with his strong criticism of Biden policies, and unwillingness to even back voting rights legislation?

The only one of these pairings that sounds at all logical, but really is not so, is Biden with Lisa Murkowski, the most acceptable Republican in national office, but how would Biden convince Harris why he has to “dump” her as Vice President?