Copied and pasted on why he shouldn’t be Vice-President, let alone President.
That would be a poor choice. Gilmore couldn’t carry his own state. He ran for Senator against Mark Warner in 2008 and had the single worst performance as a first-tier candidate in the modern era, getting 1/3rd of the vote (33.7% to Warner’s 65%), and this was an open seat (note that he won both the Governorship and Attorney General offices with 56%, so that performance for Senator was inexcusably horrid). He hasn’t won office in 19 years.
Saying that, I’m sure he’d make a credible Ambassador or lesser Cabinet or government official.
“That would be a poor choice. Gilmore couldn’t carry his own state. He ran for Senator against Mark Warner in 2008”
He had all the headwinds against him that year. Mark Warner was wildly popular and was running on the coattails of Obama in 2008, the Year of Obamalove. Christ himself wouldn’t have won that year.