Noem is a joke. She’s a lightweight, “check the boxes” candidate and we really don’t need that, and, as Republicans, we shouldn’t even be endorsing the idea.
I think J.D. Vance is the perfect candidate—he’s speaking out on MAGA issues and is taking heat for it; he has military service in his background; he has a topnotch education and he’s smart; and he’s written a best-selling book that described the plight of his ancestors and other white, working-class folks from Appalachia whom nobody gives a damn about and whose ancestors actually built this country and fought in its wars (unlike Biden’s illegal aliens).
Furthermore, he’s good looking in an Abraham Lincoln kind of way and will appeal to women voters. For such a youngish man, he has gravitas when he speaks. He’s proven he can handle the MSM and would wipe up the floor with Kamala in a debate. Steve Bannon’s crowd is backing him which may carry some weight with Trump.
JD Vance is senator today because Vivek Ramaswamy highly recommended Vance to Trump during their first meeting in 2021. Trump endorsed JD and he went on to win the race. Vance was a classmate of Ramaswamy’s at Yale Law.