I check in here just to see what craziness you guys are up to. Still mostly waiting for some actual election commentary rather than the usual railing against an invented reality. Ravenswing has opened the door to actual reality, so I guess I'll make a rare post.
Both parties have rules in place to replace nominees who are unable to continue; the article at
https://ballotpedia.org/State_laws_and_party_rules_on_replacing_a_presidential_nominee,_2020 seems to agree with everything else I've seen. Given that voting with the current ticket is already going, I suspect either party would continue with the deceased candidate and have the electors for that party determine who actually gets it, rather than risk splitting their general election votes between dead candidate and replacement candidate. (In 2000, Mel Carnahan won a Senate election despite being dead.)
I wonder why anyone would seek out commentary from the most extreme members of the other end of the political spectrum. (OK, I spend a little time here, but I would be surprised if anyone here is even close to the most extreme end of the right wing.)
The people on the left that I read have mostly offered sympathy (OK, Kos wants Trump to live so he can lose the election, be prosecuted and imprisoned, and see the ruin of his personal finances) or remained studiously neutral. In these sorts of situations, the right wing dredges up some obscure nobody to tar all Democrats, while it's major Republicans who advance cruel attacks and extreme conspiracy theories. A very common twitter post the last few days is Trump's mockery of Hillary Clinton's pneumonia, which coincidentally had its four year anniversary on Friday; and of course there's always a Trump tweet. While the Biden campaign has suspended negative advertising, the Trump campaign is still attacking Biden for wearing a mask too much and having smaller events. (Interestingly, at least one of the apostate Republicans who founded the Lincoln Project advocates keeping up the negative ads.)
Trump's doctor (medical or spin?) has admitted that he misrepresented things yesterday to be "upbeat"; nobody still in the administration has much credibility at this point, which is good for blunting any October surprises they may spring. Like their tax returns, the broad facts of a Presidential candidate's health should be known to the public. They knew enough from Hope Hicks' test result that Trump should never have gone to a buffet dinner maskless fundraiser on Thursday, even if Trump himself tested positive no earlier than the claimed timeline.
Since COVID-19 doesn't give up as quickly as human beings, I expect this will continue as the major topic of the rest of the campaign. Unlike calling members of the military suckers and losers, Woodward's tapes (ha, he almost used presidential tapes to bring down a Republican president early
and late in his career), Trump not paying taxes, debate debacle, Melania's attacks on Christmas and separated children - not to mention all the things I've forgotten in just the past few weeks.