It wouldn't surprise me if Trump dropped Pence and put Ivanka on the ticket...

[Drunken Irishman]

She could claim DC residency so she and Trump don't share the same home state. It sounds absurd but everything absurd with this presidency is realistic.

[IggleDuer]

1. SOSIT material!

Secretary of State In Training

[notdarkyet]

2. Will increase his chances of losing.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Ivanka is probably the only person on the planet who looks whiter than Pence.

[Hokie]

4. She would have to move to another state

Not that it matters but the Constitution requires that the president and vice president reside in different states. The Constitution doesn't seem to matter with Trump however.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. As I mentioned in my post, she can claim DC residency.

Or Virginia.

[Hokie]

6. Sorry I missed that

Yes, the requirement is easy to circumvent. Dick Cheney was living in Texas when he chose himself as W's running mate. He owned a place in Montana so he just lied and said he lived there.

Correction: Wyoming

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Yup. Wyoming, tho, not Montana.

I remember that well. My grandma was furious. Said it was proof positive they'd do anything to win. She was right.

[Hokie]

10. Can't believe I screwed that up

His evil spawn Liz is Representative from Wyoming.

[Retrograde]

9. No, it doesn't

The 12th Amendment states "The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President..."

It's a common mistake, but it is legal to have a president and vice-president from the same state. Practically it doesn't happen because they'd be giving up the electoral votes from that state for one of the offices, but Trump's unlikely to get any electoral votes from New York anyway.

[Hokie]

15. You are correct

I had not read the exact wording of the 12th Amendment. It was an issue in 2000 because had Cheney been ruled a resident of Texas he could not have obtained a majority if the electors from Texas could not vote for him.

[jmowreader]

12. The Constitution says no such thing

It says that each elector must vote on separate ballots for a president and a vice president, at least one of whom must be from a different state than the elector.

In Trump's case he could run Ivanka as a New York resident and still be fine because the State of New York wouldn't break for Trump even if the other candidates on the ballot were Bernie Madoff, David Koch and a sewer rat.

[Demovictory9]

8. ...

[Totally Tunsie]

11. Answer: "Daddy told me to stand here and dazzle you with my beauty."

[Mr Jimmy]

13. Pick A Little Talk A Little

[Grasswire2]

14. I just went over to freerepublic to see how they feel about Ivanka.

From their disdain, I doubt she would be well received on the ticket.

[UTUSN]

16. K&R

[MineralMan]

17. Fine! One more reason to vote him out.