Serious question - what is the latest time for the Con to withdraw from

[malaise]

his re-election campaign? When do they start printing ballots.

What happens if he withdraws after ballots are printed?

[Grasswire2]

1. I am urging a call for his immediate resignation in disgrace.

Along with his collaborateur Pence, so no pardons can be issued.

We can't risk eleven weeks of a lame duck crazy autocrat with dictatorial aspirations and presidential powers.

He has to go now.

Please raise your voices and demand his resignation in disgrace.

[Bev54]

2. Has anyone considered doing a petition

on change.org or some other site in essence that if he were to lose the election that he immediately vacate the whitehouse and the new president steps in the day after the election due to the likely hood that he would attempt to destroy the country. I think if you start now, you could get 10's of millions of signatures if properly spread out to the communities. I am Canadian so I could not do it.

[former9thward]

13. We have a Constitution that prevents what you are advocating.

And we don't change our Constitution through change.org.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I wish his father had withdrawn...

...back in 1945.

To your question, hopefully a DU political scholar will know.

[malaise]

4. Don't we all

[Andy823]

5. He won't withdraw

He is a narcissist and they think they are always right and very seldom will the back down and almost never would they admit they are wrong. Withdrawing would send the message that he was in the wrong.

He could, but I doubt it, say he has health problems so has to leave office, but again I highly doubt it. The only thing I see is after his loss in November, he takes a trip to Saudi Arabia, and stays there to avoid all the shit this will come down on him once he is no longer president.

[MoonRiver]

6. If he decides he needs to withdraw, probably to save face, he won't give a damn about timing.

He does what he wants to do, with no regard to the consequences.

[dalton99a]

7. He will stay, and cause as much damage as he can.

[wiggs]

8. That's the threat he has over the gop...they need to support him or he will resign,

out all of the gop corruption he knows about, split off all his cult members, and doom the party more than it currently is. Moreover, it is possible that if he times he resignation correctly, the party may not have time to put up another candidate in November.

Not bad for most of the country, but not good for current gop leaders in particular.

He has them over such a barrel, that he could demand that he be 'reimbursed' for his time in office before resignation. A buyout -- because he needs some kind of win -- and in return he goes when it benefits the party the most. There are plenty of oligarchs, wealthy gop donors, and conservative organizations that would pony up grift money. Of course, he won't be able to resist telling everyone that he was given a gift of billions of dollars as thanks for a job well done.

Oh...of course part of the resignation deal would be a pardon for him, his kids, and all his friends for any crime they may have committed over the last seven decades.

Either that scenario...or...they have a plan to cheat their way to re-election.

[lastlib]

11. He won't resign. Ever. Period.

The presidency is his 'get out of jail free' card. He will fight like hell, cheat, murder--whatever he thinks he can do to stay in. On January 20th, it will take a battalion of Marines to drag him out of the White House. (I and probly a million of my friends will be there to help those Marines.)

[Celerity]

12. +100000

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Republican convention isn't until Aug 24th

so it's after that: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51070020

Some states allow early and absentee voting 45 days before the general election date (eg https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/early-absentee-voting/ ) so that would mean he couldn't pull out after mid-Sept.

[malaise]

10. Thanks