Posted on 01/14/2024 8:15:55 PM PST by thefactor
There is a reason for all the Capitol Hill endorsements coming out at the moment. I didn't want to publish what my S. Florida contact told me earlier last week because I didn't want to dishearten anyone. With Rubio's endorsement, it looks like what my source said may be accurate. Essentially, The Trump/Haley ticket is a done deal. Both sides behind the scenes have discussed & hashed out the agreement. The expected announcement will supposedly take place sometime after the NH Primary but before the SC Primary.
Here's how it has gone down: Internal polling has Haley finishing a distant 3rd in IA and lagging far behind in NH with a campaign suspension coming shortly after the NH Primary. The Trump camp does not want to get into a 1-on-1 with DeSantis. For this reason, they started talking to the Haley camp about the VP spot. She would endorse Trump & he'd name her his running mate prior to the SC Primary. One of the things Trump/Haley discussed in the agreement was contingencies involving Trump's legal matters that could eventually force him out of the race.
Under the agreement, Trump would give his full support of delegates behind Haley at the convention with a supporting speech.
This agreement has apparently leaked out onto Capitol Hill with guys like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Ted Cruz all being aware of it. It appears this had something to do with Rand's #NeverNikki & Lee supposedly seeing the writing on the wall. For that matter, there's been enormous pressure on Cruz to endorse Trump. Cruz is holding out hope that DeSantis pulls off the IA victory, otherwise he is expected to endorse Trump next Tuesday/Wednesday. But he is definitely aware of the Trump/Haley agreement.
The RNC seems to be in the know here as well. They are interested in a side plan that in the event Trump is forced out of the race for legal reasons, they want Haley to pick a female VP running mate creating the first ever all-female major party ticket in history. Regarding the Loomers in MAGA World, I was told Trump would make his social media surrogates accept Haley, or they would get Dilley'd & replaced with "loyal" ones. The shots at Vivek were meant to get him out of the race no later than the NH Primary.
I was skeptical of this whole thing, but then when Rand made his #NeverNikki announcement, it made sense what he was trying to convey. Then Lee. And now Rubio today, and Cruz to follow next week. The bottom line of all this is that Trump IS the Establishment & the Establishment prefers Trump over DeSantis b/c they can control Trump. But if Trump is forced out, they have rigged the game to set Haley up as the beneficiary.
Trump's IA strategy is this. If DeSantis loses by double digits they will use media surrogates & friendly media to push him out if he decides to stay in. If by some chance DeSantis wins IA, they will try to box him out of any further momentum. All DeSantis can do is crush it in IA and "let the chips fall where they may". But if MAGA & the Establishment form this unholy alliance with the bulk of the party acquiescing with this, I'm not sure what the strategy is to out-delegate them to the convention.
Someone who is near @chiproytx or @RepThomasMassie might be able to ask about this, as I'd be surprised they weren't aware of it either.But I believe this explains the rush of endorsements before anybody has even cast a single vote. It's a Trump-Establishment unholy alliance.
All the conjecture about Trump’s supposed machinations in the early states’ primaries is just that. It doesn’t mean he’s made her his VP pick so early in the game. Nor does it mean the RNC’s desire for a woman VP pick has to be her.
Yeah and he promised to build a wall and have Mexico pay for that, remember? Then he admitted last month he never really had a plan to do that, it was just talk. Nikki's talking tough about the border too, so is Gabbi, so they'll fit right in as his VP. Only DeSantis has said he is going to militarize the border and shoot on sight. And he'd do it. Big difference between DeSantis's record on delivering on what he pledged and Trump's empty promises.
Not going to happen. I’m thinking Huckabee.
Huckabee is only in her second year of being Arky governor, she needs time to grow.
Golden Eagle, I take your views with a grain of salt - you’ve been consistently wrong for years…. you will soon be proven wrong on this as well.
My prediction is that Trump will do just fine in IA, NH and SC, although not by the margins he is winning in the polls.
The fake news and the globalist donor class that is behind Haley and DeSantis will try to spin this as a setback for Trump, and will push Nikki and Ron into staying in the race, long after it s obvious there is no path to victory for them.
Why? Because they don’t want Trump to be uncontested going into the GOP Convention. They figure if he has not clinched it by then, perhaps they can broker a deal whereby they saddle him with an establishment-approved GOP running mate, as they did with Reagan in 1980.
That is why the trolls are pushing this horse shit about a Trump/Haley ticket…
It won’t work - Trump will e strong going into the convention and will not need to cut any deals - he all be free to pick a MAGA-approved running mate.
Let’s talk again in June and see who was right.
Or, to be charitable about it just wildly making hsit up.
Probably the only potential reason I would hesitate to vote for Trump. I live in SC. I saw what she did about the “already negotiated” Confederate Memorial on state grounds. That’s all I need to know.
Her father.
the thought of it disgusts me. she is AWFUL
"I was wondering a day or so ago where this neverTrumper went."
I’m going to laugh my ass off when this happens.
Well...he’s talking about Nikkis, so, there is that 😂
NIKKIS, NIKKIS ... VP pick for XiDen?
These NTs just can’t control their TDS ... which, btw, grows more severe, each day.
I will vote for RFK jr before I cast a vote that could make Nikki Haley President.
I don’t buy it for a second.
Trump loses credibility with America First with this establishment hack on the ticket.
The establishment clearly wants to force Trump to accept one of theirs as the VP… but I will not vote for a ticket with someone who has advocated more
Pointless wars, bringing Palestinians to the US.. and all the other globalist Uniparty crap that Haley has supported.
I supported Trump strongly up until the end of 2022, when he put out that tweet saying "the Constitution should be terminated" so he could "be installed as President." That was right after he had cost us the election with horrible candidates, his attacks on DeSantis and other Republican governors, including support of Stacey Abrams, etc, and I realized this guy has lost it and only cares about himself.
Was I wrong for all those years of supporting him, you say? Maybe, but him being such a screw up wasn't as obvious back then. For the first 2 years of his Presidency, he had the Republican Congress writing the legislation like the tax cut that he tries to take credit for now. He hadn't yet admitted his campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall was just an act he didn't actually plan to do, or that he is the one who actually started the process to get the FBI their new building. Plus I have since found out he tried to make Bill Gates the Chief Scientist of the White House, and used that $250M donated to stop the steal to upgrade his airplane, so yeah, maybe I was wrong for supporting Trump all those years.
We should be asking ourselves "why?"
The Deep State does not want us to pick somebody Luke Ramaswamy or DeSantis.
I think the plan has been to block DeSantis, which every network has been involved in, and get Trump to be the nominee, which is better for business. Once that's secured, all these supposed polls will do a 180, and these trials will start getting cranked up, and then chaos ensues. Normal Americans will just want to finally put an end to it, and vote for whoever the Democrat is. It probably won't be Joe though, his demise will be blamed on a health issue, or pinned on some angry Trump supporter.
Maybe I'm wrong, but everything Trump has touched since spring of 2020 has turned into a disaster, why would this election be any different.
Sorry—VP will be not Nikki H. The list of people it will NOT be is long: Christie, The Swami, Nikki stab in the Back, Tucker Carlson, Ted Castro, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Mittens Romney, No, It will be out of the blue and a big surprise by Trump. He can not be controlled.
The Deep State knows that Biden wins in that match up against Trump. Voters especially women are tired of all the "drama" around Trump.
Lawfare against Trump worked quite well. It motivated the base to support Trump by circling their wagons around him. Then Biden can destroy Trump in the general election because he can blame Trump for always getting himself in the "news"
DeSantis is a fresh candidate and he would have a better chance in the general election. It would be difficult for the Deep State to use fraud to help Joe Biden to win. There's a limit on how many mail in ballots they can use.
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