Posted on 07/04/2016 2:20:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DENVER — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won Sunday’s Republican vice presidential straw poll of attendees at the Western Conservative Summit.
Mr. Gingrich, who took 194 votes, for 20 percent of the 985 votes cast, was followed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, who spoke Saturday at the three-day conference and took 148 votes, or 15 percent.
Rounding out the top five were three former Republican presidential candidates: ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas....
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Were there any other choices? Write ins? Not feeling it for most of those VP choices.
In the old days the runner-up got the VP job.
Too bad Ted Cruz was so nasty to Trump. As soon as he said, at some fund raiser, that he questioned Trump’s disposition or temperament to be president, it was over. That was over the line. Especially disappointing in someone who was touted as a brilliant debater, able to be glib and think on his feet as his strongest point
Done
So Trump picked a running mate? Give me a hint...
That is great...we see Colorado’s popular vote puts Cruz 5th for even VP. Its clear the establishment only wanted Cruz as a candidate to stop Trump by letting the Democrats win. That way all the Left on both sides of the aisle would be happy and secure in their positions.
Lookin’ forward to the convention, that’s for sure. I wonder what the lunaticKasich has planned for outside the convention?
How about looking FORWARD instead of going for some old hack?
Cruz set a new standard here with his petty spitefulness....why ask someone who doesn't support you to be your veep?
And they should never be news.
It's a joke they have ever been news..............
Polls are not news! Period.
I Don’t get the question. I was rrsponding to this:
“In the old days the runner-up got the VP job.”
Marsha Blackburn, congresswoman from TN.
The most important question for Mr. Gingrich to answer is “What large parts of the federal government need to be eliminated in their entirety?”
If he can name just one, he is suitable for VP.
So you’ve forgotten the Lee Harvey Oswald smear? Or the 5 girlfriends?
I hope he puts it off as long as legally possible. Here in PA, I keep running into more and more Dems who are planning to vote for Trump because they can’t stand Hillary Clinton. A lot of them are women, and they aren’t that crazy about Trump but say they are definitely are going to vote for him.
He seems to be benifiting from a huge anti Hillary sentiment, but I really wonder how his choice of VP will impact this dynamic. Almost any inside Republican like the other 16 primary contenders, or contenders from previous elections would turn these people right off, I’m almost sure. It’s Trump’s outsider creds that are giving him this crossover support.
So, I think he might be better off waiting as long as possible, picking someone unknown to politics, who can share his outsider image.
I have no idea who that would be - maybe someone like Judge Janine - I’m sort of not kidding.
Plenty of mudslinging to go around - I also remember Cruz being all het up because after his team went after Trump's wife, and Trump saying he might do the same too Cruz's wife, and Cruz acted as if the whole world was on his shoulders as he tried to protect his family.
Cruz then got beat by the guy who "couldn't run a lemonade stand, much less a campaign".
You intimated Cruz should be the veep choice and I mentioned that Cruz has been petty and spiteful and non-supportive which puts him at odds for that job - then you act as if you never made the original comment....
Cruz’s people didn’t go after Trump’s wife, that was a SUPER Pac for someone else.
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