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Donald Trump's Potential VP Shortlist (POLTICO)
POLITICO ^ | Dec 20 | POLITCO

Posted on 12/20/2021 5:18:58 PM PST by RandFan

Names from the article:

IN:

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds

Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez

Ric Grenell

Mike Pompeo

Mark Meadows

OUT:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Nikki Haley

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem

Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign staffer who worked in his administration, said it’s hard to forecast whom Trump might pick because there’s so much time to go. Whomever is chosen “will have to be loyal, and they’ll have to denounce what happened in 2020. If they don’t, they’re disqualified.”

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KEYWORDS: 2024; generalflynn; madisoncawthorn; mikelindell; rittenhouse; sidneypowell; trump; vp
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To: RandFan
He’s name-dropped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as one possible running mate.

Do it.

21 posted on 12/20/2021 5:41:49 PM PST by McGruff
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To: unclebankster

I assume Trump becomes the presumptive nominee the day he formally announces. And if he decides not to run, then it’s DeSantis.

DeSantis as VP would be a great transition for the 2028 race.
I’ll be long gone by then from the vax but it would be good for my kids.


22 posted on 12/20/2021 5:43:02 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: RandFan

Let FreeRepublic vote and decide who’s his VP pick. And every other administration choice he makes. Because God knows whoever he picks for every position is going to be wrong.


23 posted on 12/20/2021 5:43:33 PM PST by bramps (t's the Islam, stupid!I )
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To: RandFan

Good points.


24 posted on 12/20/2021 5:44:19 PM PST by laplata
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To: RandFan

I prefer DeSantis for President. But if we have to go with Trump, he should pick a Hispanic Vice President. Preferably a Dan Quayle or Mike Pence type (before he backtabned Trump). Hispanics are not happy with the Democrats and we need to seize the momentum.


25 posted on 12/20/2021 5:44:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Nifster

Yeah I follow him on you know where and like him too


26 posted on 12/20/2021 5:44:41 PM PST by RandFan
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To: hardspunned

I can’t argue with that.


27 posted on 12/20/2021 5:45:51 PM PST by laplata
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Nikki Haley is not a natural born citizen.


28 posted on 12/20/2021 5:47:22 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Hispanics are not happy with the Democrats and we need to seize the momentum”.

BINGO!!

And they had better get on it right now.


29 posted on 12/20/2021 5:48:43 PM PST by laplata
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To: MinorityRepublican

DeSantis is very impressive no doubt but I think he’s’ going to have to wait.

He runs for governor again in ‘22, that takes him to ‘26 then he runs for ‘28

I think that would be his plan


30 posted on 12/20/2021 5:51:18 PM PST by RandFan
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To: Nifster

Word of caution on Ric Grenell. Matt Walsh and him got in a Twitter exchange after GOP went pro-LGBT. Grenell stooped to leftist talking points when challenged, looked really bad, got me thinking anyway. I also think he was part of the push for Caitlyn as governor in California, any idiot could see that was a bad idea.


31 posted on 12/20/2021 5:58:50 PM PST by teevolt
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To: RandFan

NO POMPEO.Swamp creature from what I remember.


32 posted on 12/20/2021 6:07:06 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: nascarnation

“DeSantis as VP would be a great transition for the 2028 race.”

Exactly,

This is the strongest ticket. Trump can only do 4 years because of the 22nd Amendment. DeSantis would then have 8 years, “all to himself.”

Trump would have to make his home state New Jersey, though. We can’t afford to lose Florida’s electoral votes.


33 posted on 12/20/2021 6:09:03 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Nifster

Rick Grenell is impressive. He’s solid

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That what his boyfriend said.

No thanks to overt, unrepentant sodomy anywhere near the White House. I want the pendulum to start swinging the other way. And if Trump keeps pushing it then he can go away too.


34 posted on 12/20/2021 6:09:59 PM PST by bramps (t's the Islam, stupid!I )
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To: RandFan
Rand doesn't even make anyone's list.

Rand's a good man, but he doesn't always play nice with others. He's young. His time for the top slot may yet come.
35 posted on 12/20/2021 6:14:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: RandFan

I suggest GEN. Mike Flynn, and Tom Fitton for consideration


36 posted on 12/20/2021 6:14:51 PM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: teevolt

“Word of caution on Ric Grenell. Matt Walsh and him got in a Twitter exchange after GOP went pro-LGBT. Grenell stooped to leftist talking points when challenged, looked really bad, got me thinking anyway. I also think he was part of the push for Caitlyn as governor in California, any idiot could see that was a bad idea.”

Grenell can have a job in the Trump administration, but running a gay guy as VP is stupid.

I like Grenell, but he won’t pull anybody that’s gay into our camp. Plus, he won’t help us with Hispanics, which we need to keep making inroads with.


37 posted on 12/20/2021 6:15:03 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: hardspunned

He doesn’t even have to be VP, leaving Trump be Trump as a “Special Advisor to the President” would make him all but immune to democrap attacks and free to do what he does best.


38 posted on 12/20/2021 6:18:58 PM PST by bigbob
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To: RandFan; bitt; Red Badger; Jane Long

The country won’t make it to 2024 at the rate of destruction and death (murder of American citizens by Mengele Fauci et al.) by the traitors within.


39 posted on 12/20/2021 6:22:16 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RandFan

Nikki Haley and Kristi Noem. LOL.


40 posted on 12/20/2021 6:29:34 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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