Traditional politics would dictate he’d pick someone who can win him some battleground states. Noem doesn’t help, Scott doesn’t help directly but maybe could swing some black male votes in GA. Vance doesn’t help unless Ohio is tight. Desantis doesn’t help. Younkin is inexperienced and controversial at home.
But Trump isn’t a traditional politician.
By the same standards Tulsi doesn’t help because Hawaii won’t likely flip with or without her. But picking her has its advantages- it exacerbates splits in the left, it shows he’s not a partisan but a unifier, a man of principles and ideas over party. Shes a veteran/service member. She’s an empowered and smart woman of principle who could speak to everyone. She can speak to women on women’s issues and help defuse the Democrat campaign hysterics over abortion (it’s a state’s rights issue, the Trump admin isn’t going to interfere etc). She can speak to disaffected democrats and centrists. He could do worse and maybe cannot do much better in picking her, as long as she isn’t openly strident on their differences of opinion.
If a candidate can’t get their position on 2A right, there’s no reason for me to look further.
She’s been a gun grabber her entire adult life, am I to believe she suddenly flip-flopped, and is pro gun now?
I see a snake in the grass, not a “reformed” democrat.