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After the primaries and caucuses each party holds a convention to choose their presidential nominee and then that chosen person lets it be known who their VP choice is.
Will Trump announce his pick before then, I would think so.

Is Trump afraid of choosing someone as batshit crazy as he is or crazier?
Haley still has time to catch up, she's certainly on her way.

'Scoop: Kari Lake among 4 women Trump's considering for VP pick'

• Mike Allen, author of Axios AM

Kari Lake of Arizona kisses a portrait of former President Trump after speaking at CPAC in National Harbor, Md., on Friday. Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters

"Former President Trump is strongly considering picking a female running mate — and sees Kari Lake as a model for his vice presidential pick, according to people who discussed the topic with him.

Why it matters: Trump is already gaming out the general election in November 2024 — and knows he has a massive weakness with the white suburban women he would need to beat President Biden."

cont:
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/07/trump-kari-lake-vice-president-candidates-2024

 

And he will keep on having a "massive problem with suburban women" because he will keep on saying stupid stuff that will get him in trouble. The man's ego exceeds his intelligence by a wide margin. He never knows when to shut up.

It’s really disheartening to know that Trump probably has the Republican nomination in the bag because of his cult followers in the Republican Party. The man is too old. He’ll be close to 80 if he’s elected president, and he’s unelectable because of his high negatives with independent voters.

 

As a Democrat we just sit tight and watch republican kill each other over Trump during primary!

 

And that's about all Democrats CAN do because their own offering is just as pathetic.

 

If Democrat candidate get 7 million more vote then the other guy, I would offer the same guy next time.

Oh wait, Democrats’ candidate did get 7 million more vote! I rest my case.

 

Biden only got those votes because Trump was an even worse option. It's not a testament to Biden himself whatsoever.

 

Well.. Biden is in WH and Trump isn’t.

Who is GOP nominee in 2024 ?

 

I'd love to have a moderate Republican candidate in the next election to vote for. I've registered Republican and will be active in the primaries. If there is a sane candidate, I will max out my donations to that person and phone bank for them every chance I get. However, if all we have are election deniers and "culture war" idiots on the ballot, or if one of those idiots wins the nomination, then I will do the same thing for Democrats: max out donations and phone bank at every opportunity. The last thing I want is another Biden v Trump campaign, but at this point, I'd even do that for Biden if it comes down to it. I'm not all that thrilled about the guy, but he's a saint compared to Trump as far as I'm concerned.

 

Thank you. always welcome any republican who wants to vote for Democrats.

I am just wondering who is your “Moderate republican”

 

Well, once upon a time I would have said Nikki Haley . . . but that ship has obviously sailed. She's diving headlong into the culture war crap. I never minded McCain very much. I had issues with some of his positions (and I hated his choice of VP), but I supported him in the primaries against Bush. I never thought I'd say this, but I'd be happy to see Romney run again. I'd vote for him in the primaries, but probably not in the general. While I have concerns about Biden's age, those are pretty much my only concerns, and I say this as someone who voted third party last time. I won't be doing that again. Lessons learned.

Find me a candidate that supports a drag queen's rights to bear arms in self defense and wants our country to be more fiscally responsible and I'll be all over that.

 

That's why I'm sincerely hoping that Tim Scott, Glenn Youngkin, or Chris Sununu(and possibly Nikki Haley) are good candidates. They're not MAGA morons, Fake Patriot Caucusers, or Election Fraud Fantasy cultists.

 

Hopefully not Trump or DeSantis. I'd like a moderate Republican to win. The Democrats have been due a spanking since 2016 but thanks to Trump they've managed to avoid it in the three elections since then. They need to lose and lose hard. Embarrassingly so. That's the only way they will start to reject the increasingly pathetic push to go as far left as they can. If it takes 3 good election spankings, so be it. If it takes 5, so be it.

 

I've got a lot of reading up to do on those options, and I really appreciate the heads-up. I don't like Haley's way of leaning into the culture war stuff, but she may just be doing that to win the primary and will readjust afterward. She seems savvy enough for that. I don't think she's just angling for a VP role.

 

I feel bad for republican like yourself. It must be painful to see what your party become. Yes, I am Democrat but I know America needs both party. I don’t have to tell you where your party is today.

I don’t think your party going back to Mitt Romney or John McCain or Jeff Flake any time soon. Current GOP will not nominate a candidate like Scott Walker or Tim Pawlenty. They are all RINO to current GOP.

I know it is not an easy decision to make that if Trump or DeSantis win the nomination you will support Biden. Only way this GOP will change / wake up if they lose election after election.

Problem with majority republican (like yourself) is that you guys are either voting third party, staying at home or keeping your heads down and voting whomever is the GOP nominee. This will not fix your party. Only thing will change your party is “ defeat in voting both”

It’s funny, I supported W. Bush in 2000 primary against McCain and voted for him in general election in 2000. I would have voted for W. Bush in 2004, but his “hunkered down” attitude toward a lost cause ( war in Iraq) was too much to accept.

 

I agree with you that Democrat shouldn’t move to the left. I am a liberal Democrat but I reject AOC, Sanders, Warren policy. But let’s be honest AOC/ Sanders / Warren are not the party leader and setting up policy for Biden administration.

It seems like you are moderate Republican, and you would like moderate Republican to be GOP nominee. But currently Trump is the head of the party. Kari Lake is the favorite to win a VP nomination. That’s your party. And you want to teach a lesson to Democrats not to move too much to left? This is why your party is moving Trump to DeSantis to Kari Lake to Green. While your party run by nutcase and no moderate republican has any chance to win GOP nomination, all your care about how far left is Democratic party. Good luck finding a moderate in your party!

 

No need to feel bad. I've voted for Dems, I've voted for Republicans, and I've voted third party. I mostly registered with the GOP to see if there was anything I could salvage. I had only previously registered with the Libertarian party, which I'm also growing disillusioned with. It is really painful, though. I used to say (and you can find me saying this in the forums) that both sides have their crazies but that no side is represented by them. I can't say that anymore with the way things are going. I miss the days when both sides had their moderates and a few outliers. Now the GOP seems to be all outliers.

I don't think they will, but I'm optimistic to a fault. I'm at least going to try. If the primaries show that my hopes were in vain, so be it. I'll register as a Dem instead, for the first time in my life.

It wouldn't actually be that hard of a decision for me to support Biden over Trump or DeSantis. I tried giving DeSantis a chance, and I think I'd still prefer him over Trump, but he's still part of that culture war insanity. I have a lot of trans friends. I can't look them in the eye and still put a checkmark next to his name. I hope that losing election after election after election will wake the GOP up, but I'm also worried it will just fuel more conspiracy theories.

I'm fine with punishing the GOP in the voting booth until they start finding moderate candidates again. I definitely won't choose the GOP down ballot option or the staying at home option.

I was big into McCain at the time because I was really into campaign finance reform. It's not so much a voting issue for me anymore. Iraq was a big turnoff for me, but aside from that, Bush seems like a decent human being. Him passing candy to Michelle Obama was one of the most charming things I've ever seen. I can't really see any situation where Trump or any of his followers would be able to show a fraction of that kind of human empathy.

 

Actually, the only Republicans I've ever voted for have been for local offices. I'm still a registered Democrat. And I'm having an even harder time finding a moderate Democrat right now. AOC and her like may not be the leaders of the party, but it's heading that way. Another 5-10 years and they will have run out all the moderate Democrats(probably to the Republican party). The same thing seems to be starting in the Republican party with the influx of MAGA and the Fake Patriots. So really I'd just like to find a moderate from either party because I'm just damn tired of the extremists in both.

 

There was no Trump campaign event. Period. There is no legitimate grounds to call a CPAC speech a campaign rally or event. It clearly and obviously to all rational intelligent and fair minded human beings was not one.

 

Dayam! but that is a disturbing picture

Her lips are usually far lower nearer his backside

 

What is a Moderate Democrat to you? What policies are so left in Biden administration that you can’t find any moderate Democrat in Biden Administration or in Congress?

 

A moderate is someone who can work with the other side and realizes that compromise is essential to the political process. They are not the types who think their own importance is the highest concern and that compromising and negotiating are signs of weakness. Ideologically, they are able to realize that no side has all the answers and that only through a combination of ideas can any real progress be made.

What I see in politics right now are an increasing number of extremists on both sides who don't respect compromise and negotiation and who think the character they play on TV and on social media is more important than their responsibility to work for the betterment of the country. I've watched as both parties censure and purge those who express even mild detachment from whatever the party line is. Look at what the Republicans have done to anyone who spoke out or voted against Trump. The progressive wing of the Democratic party is going down the same path. If things continue the way they are going, the extremists will have purged all the moderates under asinine claims of weakness or DINO/RINO bullshit.

 

Trump is already ahead of traditional politicians by identifying specific problems and how he plans to fix them.
Regular politicians talk and say little. So there is that.
BTW, don’t have to like a president. Why should that count.
BTW, Trump said he is sending the illegals here home.

 

You want compromise , really ? with who ? Matt Gatz? Or Marjorie Taylor Greene? Or Ted Cruz? They don’t want to compromise. In last congress 147 Republicans voted against electoral count against Biden. Last congress GOP had 50 senators and 212 congressperson, that is 262 elected official. More then 56% ( 147) of them don’t believe in simple democratic norm like electoral count. You want Democrats to band over backward to compromise with these people who don’t even believe in simple democratic process?

Progressive Democrat has issue, but when 56% elected GOP official don’t even believe in democratic process, you don’t have luxury to worry about progressive Democrats.

 

Of course they don't want compromise, they are the exact type of people I described. They are more concerned with the character they play on TV and in social media and not concerned at all about governing. Their counterparts on the left are the progressives who basically do the exact same type of bullshit grandstanding, just from the other side of the coin.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend the Democrats don't come with their own host of problems. This is not a situation where only the worst behavior counts and everything less doesn't matter. They are all accountable for all of it.