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Democrats 'fear' this possible Trump VP pick who 'could spell the end for Biden': Insiders
.foxnews ^ | Published June 9, 2024 4:00am EDT | By Brandon Gillespie

Posted on 06/12/2024 6:25:37 AM PDT by airdalecheif

The race to determine who will be Donald Trump's running mate this November took a major step forward last week with the acceleration of vetting multiple potential candidates, but political insiders with deep knowledge of presidential campaigns say there is one possible name on the former president's shortlist Democrats "fear" the most.

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To: faithhopecharity

Tulsi Gabbard


61 posted on 06/12/2024 8:42:42 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: airdalecheif
Is he not, like Trump, a legal resident (Senator, in fact) of Florida? There's nothing prohibiting the ticket to be from one State, but the Constitution does prohibit electors from casting both of their electoral votes for candidates from the same state. Florida counts for a lot of Electors. Something to consider if the margin is close.

Aside from that, Rubio is a career politician and has always seemed to me to be a little bit wobbly. Finger in the air to check the wind. Not a leader.

62 posted on 06/12/2024 8:47:04 AM PDT by katana
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To: UCANSEE2

an interesting possiblity but i am not convinced she is up to speed on foreign relations or defense issues

and i am still uncertain if she could even help carry HI for the ticket?


63 posted on 06/12/2024 9:00:41 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: airdalecheif

Wasn’t that long ago Rubio was gonna quit (not run for reelection) “They” BEGGED/cajoled/bribed/blackmailed him into running again.

If the media thinks its a good pick, then don’t do it!


64 posted on 06/12/2024 9:12:06 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Dr. Sivana

I look at it as Reagan picking GHWB as VP. It’s safe, will drag in the liberal sorrier than whale sh*t country club establishment trash on board with exceptions, but we are stuck with him after four years assuming the deep state and establishment doesn’t JFK Trump, which I wouldn’t put past these animals.


65 posted on 06/12/2024 9:12:45 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: airdalecheif

Rubio and the $64,000 Question

June 10, 2024 | Sundance | 776 Comments

Treeper Question:

ICTHEMATRIX – […] “Related to the topic of discerning alignment via a question, I would like to sincerely ask you your thoughts on a very real possibility:

What are we to make of President Trump’s possible choice of Marco Rubio as his VP?

In many columns and pages, you have chronicled the multiple failure points of Senator Rubio…his service within the corrupted Intelligence committee, and his non-MAGA compromises. I fear this could become another massive moment of fatally poor judgement.”

The direct issue of the vice presidential pick of Donald Trump is a fun topic often discussed, because it can easily engage everyone.  The issue of Rubio, or ‘fill_in_the_blank‘, is not really that important to me; and before your jaw opens, I’ll explain why.

My personal preference is Dr. Ben Carson, for all the reasons I have previously mentioned {GO DEEP}. 

In this election, GOOD is going head-to-head against EVIL.

When I say GOOD -vs- EVIL, let me give context. 

These are the stakes. Given the nature of potential nuclear weapon use, three simultaneous global conflicts (likely 4 with Taiwan), a looming World War III, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of slaughtered people, the likely elimination of the dollar as the global reserve currency for around half the world, a dollar-based central bank digital currency created by the United States Treasury if Biden wins, the catastrophic consequences in the lives of ordinary Americans, and essentially the end of projected USA power and the economic security that goes with it, there may not be a familiar tomorrow if the election goes the wrong way.   With that in mind, the lowest possible consideration in my mind is 2028.

Next up, put this thinking cream into your coffee as we sip through the thought processes.

They crossed the Rubicon in 2020 with 51 high ranking Gov Intel members purposefully and specifically lying to the public.  Does everyone realize the scale of that, and what it meant when they took that position on such an openly visible lie right to our faces, using our highest-ranking government intelligence members? 

They don’t exactly come back from that; it was an all-in position…. and they did it.  What does that stuff in 2020 tell you about 2024?

What they will do, based on what they have already done, is the stuff we should be thinking about.

Look at what they have done.

This doesn’t even touch on the forced vaccination and COVID madness where people literally stood outside of buildings while their husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, grandparents and children died alone, ALONE, because government people – the type who torture beagles for a living – said that isolation was what we needed to do…. because that was part of the predicate for manipulating an election.

Lawfare?  Heck, that’s the least dangerous poison arrow in their death to the republic quiver.

That’s the 2024 context.

So back to the VP possibility and Marco Rubio.

I don’t have any idea who President Donald Trump will select.  However, I can see him liking Senator Rubio, because Rubio is articulate, clean, relatively young, bilingual, has a family, is polite and well mannered, is cultured, is seemingly not in trouble, and he gives a good impression when he walks into the room and engages the guests.   Rubio outwardly checks boxes that make him appear like a safe legacy consideration.

The downside is that Rubio is a manipulative liar, untrustworthy, speaks with forked tongue, fulfills the role of Brutus, or the “scorpion” perfectly, and seemingly has done stuff early on in his life that may have created the origination compromise.  Beyond all that, the cherry on the corruption cake is his relationship with the Intelligence Community.  Any SSCI Vice-Chair who can sit with SSCI Chairman Mark Warner as a “friend across the aisle,” can never, not for a single moment, be trusted.  It’s just the reality of it.

That said, I genuinely don’t care who Trump selects as vice president.  I have my preference (Carson), but I’m situationally ambivalent to the issue, because I view my preference for Trump’s mission as something totally different than most.

WE THE PEOPLE need to take back the power from our government.  I want President Trump to operate every lever from the limited office of the presidency to give us the tools to take back that power.  WE need to be the vice president, and WE need to be the force in 2028 that determines how the deconstruction of our oppression continues.

President Donald J. Trump is our weapon, our wrecking ball to start this MAGA process.  We the People are the entities who need to support Trump, while keeping him fueled and fearless as he does it.  Depending on how much deconstruction demolition Trump is able to achieve, the next phase of operational leadership will need a different skillset.

Last point – I don’t believe that President Donald Trump has “massively failed” at anything.  I’m not going to backbite, judge or criticize the man in the arena, because he wears a different sandal or chooses a different weapon to fight the enemy.  Look around, he’s all alone.

Go back to what I wrote in July, 2015, about Donald Trump. “Why I Support Donald Trump“… Long before anyone thought he had a chance, I explained the reason I would support him in 2015. [Part 2]

I said in 2015, if Donald Trump showed up to the August Fox debate in five-inch heels, a Carmen Miranda hat and started twerking the podium of Jeb Bush, I would vote for him even harder. …. Because Trump was the only one different than the set of characters organized to help Jeb.

President Trump isn’t the cause of the GOP problems; President Trump is the result of the GOP problems. President Trump is our weapon. From that perspective, there is no alternative. And yes, he is the ONLY alternative. Whether he makes mistakes or not is a moot point against the reality of him being the only alternative to a completely corrupt system. Think about it.

There are quite enough high-horse riders and keyboard warriors who do not understand the DC system criticizing Trump. They don’t need my help. I cheer our glorious bastard every day, because every ounce of his thinking and effort comes from a place of good intention. I do not doubt this fallible, flawed and simultaneously decent, strong, purposeful and resilient man.

Beyond 2024, Good is going to have to battle Evil, and at the same time our nation will need stability, optimism and a resurgence of faith.  In short, no one is winning this political war without putting God, righteousness and prayer at the forefront, as the DC tables are overturned.

When it gets ugly, and it will get extremely ugly, something just inherently tells me, we will need Ben Carson.


66 posted on 06/12/2024 9:17:00 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bshaw

I think that you are on to something with your picks.

Lost in this conversation is the real possibility that the VP
may be called on to carry on the legacy of Trump. I would
prefer that the VP is someone who is determined at the most
fundamental level to return the US government to a sound
fiscal policy, a constitutionally based legal system, and an
America first foreign policy.

I think that your choices reflect that.


67 posted on 06/12/2024 9:21:33 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: one guy in new jersey

He was born in Miami. Thus he can run. Don’t like it? Complain to the USSC.


68 posted on 06/12/2024 9:34:02 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: airdalecheif

Rubio!!!!

LOL!!!!!!


69 posted on 06/12/2024 9:57:49 AM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Jeff Vader

IDK I haven’t heard that


70 posted on 06/12/2024 9:58:39 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: airdalecheif

Now cometh the GOPe, the RINO’s, the Deep State to tell Trump which one of their rank he can chose to be his VP. Making sure that their person will be the incumbent VP to run for POTUS when Trump is done. Making sure to get their warmongering, globalist idiot into the White House or, at least, being the graceful loser designate.

Same old song. Been playing since Reagan.


71 posted on 06/12/2024 10:25:35 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: navymom1

Well, I certainly don’t want Rubio as VP!


72 posted on 06/12/2024 10:39:19 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: navymom1

Rubio needs to stay in the Senate!

Trump should pick someone with executive experience - say a former or sitting “America First” MAGA governor!


73 posted on 06/12/2024 10:40:50 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: airdalecheif

Nov. 5, 2024 WILL END Biden!


74 posted on 06/12/2024 10:44:17 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: airdalecheif

We don’t hold the same opinion of little Marco.


75 posted on 06/12/2024 11:02:15 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: Bshaw

Michael Flynn— ok with
- Mrs. Alito— historic pick...
- JD Vance — can’t argue

Mrs Alito made me chuckle.

t


76 posted on 06/12/2024 12:15:25 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Seruzawa

sanguine


77 posted on 06/12/2024 4:07:55 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

So did I. Levin is 500% smarter than you seem to be.


78 posted on 06/12/2024 4:16:45 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: Daveinyork

He can. It just complicates the Florida EV votes. But if Trump earns enough EVs from other states to cover Florida Rubio wouldn’t need the VP EVs from there.

Bur I don’t like him as VP.


79 posted on 06/12/2024 4:20:42 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: UCANSEE2

No thanks. Too far left.


80 posted on 06/12/2024 4:21:15 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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