Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
The game theory of this upcoming election has been fascinating to me. So far, I’ve written about my thoughts on Trump’s VP and who could replace Biden, as well as throwing my hat in the ring for Trump to select Tulsi Gabbard as VP, with hopes she gets a chance to kick the shit out of Vice President Airhead on national television at some point again.
I found myself poring over the comments in my last few articles reading everyone’s fascinating take on what’s possible with just 5 months left until the election and thought I would formalize the discussion a bit here on this thread with a couple specific things I’m left wondering.
It’s not in my nature to give my subscribers and readers homework for the weekend, but I was going to put these questions to a Twitter poll when I realized (1) it would be easier to do it here on a thread where we can discuss and (2) I care about my subscriber community’s opinions more than many of the randos that follow me on Twitter.
I wanted to get takes on a couple of questions:
Who do you think the Democratic nominee will be and why? If someone other than Joe Biden, when and how will Biden be replaced (i.e. will he back out or be forced out and, if the latter, how will it go down?)
Who do you think Trump will realistically pick as his VP (not who you want to see, who he will go with) and explain the reasoning for picking them?
Who do you think is really calling the shots at the Biden administration right now? Jill? Hunter? The Obamas? The “deep state”? Explain your reasoning.
Do you think there are forces holding up the stock market and macroeconomic data (i.e. the jobs numbers that keep getting revised, CPI, etc.) to get us to November? If so, do you think the bottom could fall out of the market and this data “surprisingly” in November, post-election?
Leave your answers at this linked thread.
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