Who Will Trump Pick As His V. P.?

If he wants a winning ticket it will be Desantis or Hailey

 

I don’t think anyone with any sense of independence and self respect is going to tie themselves to Trump. I think that eliminates Haley, DeSantis, or Youngkin. Jim Jordan has a successful political career going, so I don’t think he would accept a VP offer from Trump.

Trump is going to lose the general election in November, so his VP choice will have to be someone who will enjoy the ride and attention while it lasts, someone with nothing to lose.

 

As usual you got it wrong. He plead guilty to a whole **** load of crap that had no basis in fact to get a light sentence on the stuff that actually was illegal, most notably under reporting his tax liability some of which involved the money trump paid him, and his taxi medallion scam.

 

What is really interesting is what happens if neither trump nor Biden makes it to 2024. Neither is a spring chicken Biden is almost literally a dead man walking, Trump is a heart attack waiting to happen. And then what happens, Almost all the people that were on the stage with biden last time have fully demonstrated that they shouldn't be let out without a keeper.

 

My assumption would be that any such gossip, at this point, would be nothing more than that. But can you offer a link, to any of these sources,you mention (or at least tell us where you have heard this rumor)?

 

You are correct: anybody who actually is loyal to Trump is a losing ticket. He needs somebody whose loyalty he can BUY. Like... Tucker Carlson...

 

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Too late to fix the post. Beyond five minutes.

So, here is the part I did not address.

The key here is that the GOP held the House, Senate, and WH. Trump is not going to go against the party that got him there. The JCTA was more of a Trump thing. Yes, it mostly benefited the rich, but it also placed temporary individual reductions that hurt certain states, namely blue states. It was designed to take money out of blue states and reinvest them in red states. And that is not happening. And in 2025, the SALT deduction will come back along with the 2% miscellaneous deductions and other things 2025 unless those cuts are extended. But I am not seeing that in the near future, and definitely not before 2024. But that is the typical Trump policy, rob one side and pay the other which is what the JCTA is. And what you also need to look at is how Trump reacted and responded when the House was controlled by Dems and the Senate controlled by the GOP, which was much different than when the GOP controlled both the House and Senate.

After reviewing, I really did not see where I eclipsed anything major, maybe a word or two or something along those lines. but I pretty much addressed your four points by each point that you were dealing with. Just not the fact that what you highlighted in bold until now.

 

DeSantis is another Alpha Male and he won't accept. Haley might accept but with conditions that Trump will not agree to.

 

Just FYI, we have 14 minutes for editing. I would not have posted you, asking you to fix your post, unless you'd still had time remaining, to do so. Since there are 8 minutes between our two post times, you'd still had six minutes remaining, when I'd sent you the message.

The five minute limit, is only for the Private messages (Inbox).

 

Its a three way race: MTG, Gaetz and Trump Jr.

Tarrio is also available now that he is out of prison.

Or, Guiliani....in drag, or without it, but I'm guessing in drag

 

Note for sake of accuracy it is stated as 15 minutes, however, if you don't finish the correction in 15 minutes minus the time you started it, it will not post.

 

That's a real dilemma for Trump. He's painted himself so far into a corner that there's no room for anybody else who has much appeal to enough voters. About all Trump can do is pick someone that nobody ever heard of, get beat in the election, and then have a sulking pity-party about it. And all that does is cement Democrats' grip on power. We're headed for a crash landing and nobody brought any parachutes.

 

Your post started out good and could have made for good discussion but then you devolved into pure anti-Trumpism.

 

The Trump and Tucker ticket. What could go wrong?

 

I have a feeling it will be Tucker... or somebody like Tucker whose loyalty can be bought for the right dollar amount. Other alternatives would be of the Marjorie Taylor Green, or the Proud Boys Shaman... type. Any politician would have to be batshit crazy to be loyal to Trump... unless he's being paid for it.

 

Remember when Ross Perot ran for president in '92? He picked Admiral James Stockdale, who had been awarded the Medal of Honor to run as his VP. I can see Trump finding an honored, retired military officer to run as his VP, hoping that doing that would create the impression to voters that he's serious about defending the country's interests.

As it turned out, Perot put poor, old Stockdale through the ringer, with Perot's on-again, off-again campaign. I felt bad for Admiral Stockdale because he deserved much better than that, despite the fact that someone with no political experience has any business running for the second highest office in the country.

 

That is uncomfortable, to watch.

 

And yet, in their day to day carrying out of their elected roles, most Republicans in Congress are loyal to Trump. Look, for example, at Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, devoting effort to harass DA Bragg, going so far as holding a meeting/press conference, up in Manhattan.

 

Only if he can find another Michael Flynn type.

 

Well Jim Jordan.... he's just as batshit crazy as Marjorie Taylor-Green. Imagine a Trump-Jordan ticket. Would that be much different from a Trump/Taylor-Green ticket? And if he's not as crazy as he appears he would realize that he is now in the highest position he can ever hope to achieve, so I doubt he'd want to be part of a ticket with Trump. But, more to your point, there are others who might be considered serious lawmakers and who support Trump. But that's just because they need the support of his followers, or they won't get re-elected. If Trump had any of them as their VP, they would stab him in the back first opportunity they get. The only reason he chose Pence is because Trump knew he was a wimp and would not dare oppose him. I believe he confronted Trump on January 6 only because he knew all the legal troubles the orange blob would be facing after he left the presidency.

 

Did Jordan break the law?

 

That was not the point of my comment. Thread participants had been suggesting there would be a dearth of Republicans willing to share a ticket with Trump. Jordan was meant as an example of the obsequious subservience, shown by members of the GOP, writ large.

 

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