Key Points
• Like clockwork, three vice presidential hypotheticals emerge around this time every four years.
• The three possibilities are a sitting president replacing the current vice president with a new running mate; a nominee picking a running mate from the opposite party; and a former president becoming a running mate.
• For various reasons, none of these hypothetical vice presidential scenarios have happened in recent decades, and they are all unlikely this cycle. CONT.
Joel K. Goldstein, Sabato’s Crystal Ball