Trump reveals criteria for running mate; name-drops 2 top Republicans

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  1. Durandal

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    Talking Gallstone reveals criteria for running mate; name-drops 2 top Republicans
    Anders Hagstrom
    Sun, February 4, 2024 at 10:06 AM CST

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    "You know, I called [South Carolina Sen.] Tim Scott and people like Tim Scott, and I said you're a much better candidate for me than you are for yourself," Rotting Pumpkin said. "When I watched him, he was fine. He was good, but he was very low-key."

    "I watched him in the last week, defending me and sticking up for me and fighting for me. I said, 'Man, you're a much better person for me than you are for yourself,'" he continued.

    Toilet Clog went on to praise South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as well, noting that she said publicly that she would never run against him "because I could never beat him."

    ... https://news.yahoo.com/trump-reveals-criteria-running-mate-160606899.html

    Surprise surprise, Trump's criteria for a running mate are that he or she kiss his ass and never challenge him. Who would have thought?
     
  2. MiaBleu

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    Who would have thought , indeed !!! We could have written that script for him ;-)
     
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    Two great choices and both of them better than Trump.

    However the argument that Trump should pick a person who doesn’t agree with him on the issues is crap. That last time that happened was in 1796 when John Adams was elected president and Thomas Jefferson was elected vice president. They amended the constitution to prevent that from happening again.
     
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    Trump should pick his future cellmate.
     
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    I hope that he doesn't pick either one of them. They're both bad choices, and they would both backstab him in a heartbeat in favor of the corrupt establishment.
     
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    Attitudes like this are one of the big problems with the Trump movement. Scott got on the Trump team as soon as he suspended his campaign. Kristi Noem was never off the Trump team. Have you seen any of her ads for South Dakota on TV? You couldn’t ask for a governor who is more in line with the Trump low taxes, pro capitalist philosophy. I’d support her for president.
     
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    It's simply an understanding of how the Uniparty operates in order to maintain their corrupt elitist status quo.

    Of course he did. The RNC club knows that Trump is going to win, so they are positioning their poison pills accordingly. There is nothing MAGA about Tim Scott, and imho he sounds like a complete buffoon whenever he speaks.

    There's plenty to like about her on the surface, but her "Koch ties" make her ultimately untrustable as a Vice President imho.

    I would be much more supportive of Ben Carson as a VP choice.
     
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    You can keep carping about the “uniparty,” but you will have build at wider voter base if Trump is going win. Otherwise he will lose again, perhaps by a wider margin, despite the fact that Biden is the pits.
     
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    If he was a Democrat he would just pick based on skin color and genitalia.
     
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    The Uniparty is the single biggest obstacle in the way of achieving real policy change that benefits We The People, so of course I'm going to keep "carping" (educating others) about it.

    I really don't understand this position at all, and I know that I've detailed it out for you before as to why it doesn't make any sense.

    Democrats are currently scared shitless because they realize that they are losing the support of Blacks and Hispanics. At this point, Trump will likely win a very slim MAJORITY of the Hispanic vote, and could at least double his prior support amongst Blacks. That’s the very definition of “building a wider voter base”, so it baffles me that you somehow think that he’s not doing that. Trump is even gaining support amongst the younger crowd (people my age and younger). If you think that these shifts are “towards Republicans”, then you’re mistaken. It’s not about Republicans; it’s about MAGA.

    How do you suppose that Ted Cruz is in an extremely tight race for his Senate seat in TX, yet Trump is polling like 10 points ahead of Biden in TX. Obviously Trump has a much wider voter base than Ted Cruz does. It’s the same with Nikki Haley. People are sick of the corrupt Uniparty BS and aren’t going to vote for her. I’m one such person who has voted straight Republican in the past and has decided that I will no longer be giving my vote to corrupt Uniparty POS’s, even if that means (“God forbid”) a DEMOCRAT gets the seat. Why? Well, would I rather get the destruction over with, or would I rather the country be destroyed at a slightly slower pace? At this point, I say to just get it over with if the MAGA movement to save this country fails.
     
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    Who cares Trump will get double the Hispanic vote or Black vote.

    Just like 2020, we DEMS will cheat and win.
     
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    Wife #1

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    Wife #2

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    Wife # 3
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    Just FYI - none of them were born in USA!
     
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    Surprise, surprise - I don't see any of that in his words. Remind me the last time Harris ever contradicted or spoke against Biden.
     
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    Surprise, surprise - a trumper is totally incapable of seeing something they don't want to see even when it's put right in front of them and helpfully highlighted in bold print.
     
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    There's only so much that cheating can accomplish. This might be beyond the margin of fraud.
     
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    George Soros is spending a fortune to defeat Ted Cruz in Texas. That might explain his challenges.

    As for Trump winning, Texas is not an issue. It is MAGA country. The election is going to be won in states like Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump could take Texas by 30 points, but that doesn’t matter. If he doesn’t win most of those swing states, it’s over.
     
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    He is hoping that Scott, like Pence would drag some of the evangelicals to him
     
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    He is already doing quite well with that group, from what I've heard. Considering what else these people tend to believe and how prone they are to believing in charlatans, that's certainly no surprise.
     
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    Trump has only ONE criteria for his staff: ABSOLUTE LOYALTY to TRUMP and Trump alone. Must continuously FLATTER Trump for being so "great". NEVER oppose Trump. (lethal for one's job with destructive shaming that staff ........ just out of spite)
     
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    but this is Trump, he probably pick based on relation, as nepotism was big in the Trump white house
     
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    Noem is a boob, she's kind of the right-wing Gretchen Whitmer, but I could be okay with Tim Scott. It's too bad he endorsed Trump. I get that he was expected too because partisanship, but still, your endorsement is your own and it matters who you give it to. Not that I would have expected or even wanted him to endorse Biden. He should have just not endorsed anybody if he was truly concerned for the direction of the country because neither of those men are going to take it anywhere better than where we are now.
     
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    “Margin of Fraud” , is that even a thing.

    You are in WI, do you remember election night 2020, at 10 pm Trump was wining WI, but by 3 am all of a sudden Milwaukee got 100K vote for Biden. where did you think those ballots come from? We DEMS just adjusted how many ballot we need to shove down the suitcase under the table ( remember picture form GA?)

    You conservatives are so trustworthy, it is not even funny. What do you think Joe Biden did when he had meeting with Chinese president XI? Biden ordered ballot be printed with Biden winning. Over 1 billion ballots with Biden winning. I know , I know USA doesn’t have that many people. But we just want to make sure we have enough ballots so if we lose a truck here or a suitcase there, we will have enough to make up for it.

    At the end .. Biden will get 330 EC and come out victorious. Trump on the other hand will go back to Mara-lago and claim “ I won the election, best people came to me and said ‘sir.. you won the election by 2 billion votes, even people from Russia voted for you’ I won the election not only in America but also in Russia”.

    But who cares what Trump says. No one would care.
     
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    Oh yea , Scott the “abstinence only” guy. Scott push for “abstinence only” policy over condom and tell “ you should save yourself until marriage’, but he and his GF regularly….. you know the rest!


    But to evangelicals , they will say , “ he is a new Christians, we should forgive his action”.
     
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    I guess Mike Pence is outta the question.....LOL.
     
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