2016: Clinton/Kaine vs. Trump/Schwarzenegger

[Turbo Flame]

Lets pretend that the Hatch Amendment didn't exist for a moment. How would Donald Trump do had he gone with the movie actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of Mike Pence?

[Alben Barkley]

Arnold never would have been on a ticket with Trump unless his campaign/platform/personality was fundamentally different, so hard to say.

[Snazzrazz Mazzlejazz]

Assuming nothing changes about Trump himself, I'd assume this ticket would lose because of the lack of Pence to shore up religious right support.

[Agonized-Statism]

Fmr. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY) / Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) ✓
Businessman Donald Trump (R-NY) / Fmr. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)

Another celebrity with an even less socially conservative record would lose more supporters than he would bring in. Trump needed Pence to win over skeptics in the base. It's still a fairly strong ticket, but less party unity and contradictory positions on things like immigration would weaken it just enough.