[RandFan]

Brilliant article and a good case for JD Vance I feel. Sums up why I like him anyway.

[hardspunned]

I could not agree more.

[Alberta's Child]

U.S. Senators invariably make for awful leaders. I don’t trust this guy Vance any further than I can throw him.

And he doesn’t bring Trump a single vote that Trump doesn’t already have.

[FLT-bird]

Agreed on all counts and let me add, the Deep State would fear Vance at least as much if not even more than Trump. Ergo, they would never try anything if Vance were the running mate. If it were a RINO stooge like Tim Scott or Marco Rubio however, Trump would be dead within a year. These people will stop at nothing to maintain their power and their positions.

[Adder]

His biggest plus would be as President of the Senate when the pubbies take it back.

Other than that I see him as a bit polarizing to the majority who do not follow politics except from Oct. to Nov every 4 years. There Tulsi Gabbard might have an advantage.

Trump’s polling advantages now will disappear as the election gets closer. He really needs every single ballot he can win.

[odawg]

Will read the article later, but the headline should read: Whoever wants to be vice-president should run with Trump.

[ifinnegan]

Some Harvard guy from Cincinnati pretending to be a hillbilly.

[EvilCapitalist]

I’m leaning towards Dr. Ben Carson. I think he proved his loyalty during President Trump’s first term, and being born in Detroit, he would give President Trump an excellent chance to win Michigan.

[Reno89519]

Nope. Leave him in the Senate where he is needed more. Besides, he does nothing to build Trump’s base.

[Bratch]

Deep State Pushing Trump VP Choices as Secret Service Ramps Up Security Detail

June 21, 2024 | Sundance | 588 Comments

A couple of quick hot points from the 2024 presidential race and Trump side of the equation.

♦ First, we can ignore all of the typical pre-debate banter about who is doing what in the lead-up to the Trump v Biden debate.  Every cycle the debate narratives are pushed for clicks and attention; almost all of it is manufactured nonsense and false.

Actual, professional, presidential debate teams do not leak information about their debate prep activity to the media. The only information released is from campaign players who want the other side to see, hear and waste time preparing for imaginary nonsense.  All of the pre-debate stuff, banter, punditry and column inches are one big mind game of misinformation.  Ignore all of it.

♦ Second, the DC system that created Mike Pence as the best option for Trump 2016 is the same system pushing Vance, Rubio and Burgum for 2024.  [Example HERE]

The intent with Pence 2016 is the same intent with Vance, Rubio and Burgum ’24.  I’m cautiously optimistic President Trump is well aware of this.

Seriously, how many times have you heard me repeat the warning: 

NEVER TRUST A NEVER-TRUMPER. 

Yet, time and time again people get wooed back, deny their instincts, dismiss the intellectual reality and drop their guard.  Every single time the Trump supporters get burned.

This is not complicated folks.  The Never-Trumpers do not change position, have an awakening, trip over some “come to Jesus” moment, engage in self-reflection, or otherwise evolve to stop thinking that Donald Trump is the end of their world.   Never-Trumpers espoused that opinion, because Never-Trumpers saw value in holding that opinion.  It is simple and should be accepted.

Those who claimed Trump was/is horrible, terrible, egotistical, evil and all the other adjectives to describe their sentiments, do not suddenly have a change in perspective.   What changes them are changes in the instructions they are given.   They begin praising Trump because there is new value in stating that opinion. 

NEVER, EVER trust a never-Trumper.  The stakes are too high.

♦ Third, apparently the secret service is increasing the security detail around President Trump.

Kelly O’Donnell: “Secret Service is ready to add new protectee detail for Trump running mate. USSS is also increasing size of Trump detail beyond level for formers. Official said, “The Secret Service detail has been bulked up by additional special agents and support teams to ensure the highest level of security for not only the event sites but the travel in between events.” (source)

Generally speaking, the current DC system operators, that are referred to as the ‘Biden administration’, have no motivation to protect Donald Trump other than their sense of personal responsibility to the nation President Trump represents.

Given the effort that Tucker Carlson has put into mainstreaming thoughts around the ‘killing of Trump‘, I am cautious to view any Secret Service effort through the prism of professional altruism.

I pray for the safety of President Trump and his family daily, because I am very clear-eyed about the nature of the enemy he faces.

[Mark17]

I hope Trump picks a good running mate, but in order to win, he has to overcome massive amounts of election fraud.

[Zack Attack]

I can’t get past his previous quotes and insults of Trump.

“I’m a Never Trump guy,”

“My god what an idiot,” he wrote, referring to Trump.

“might be America’s Hitler”

People can change, but I still smell a future Backstab coming.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

Gov. Glenn Youngkin puts Virginia in play. If we win VA, it is game over in the Electoral College.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[griswold3]

If JD gets chosen, DeWine will appoint another Kasich/Romney type. We need Vance in the Senate.

[PermaRag]

Vance would be great, a lot better than presumed favorite Nothingburger Burgum (Mike Pence 2.0 without the sanctimonious bible-thumping).

I called long ago for it to be Glenn Youngkin, but a fighter like Vance would be welcome on the ticket.

Note however that Vance would be replaced in the Senate by somebody much less conservative. Not a Democrat, but a squishy DeWine-type Republican. The worst possible (and therefore most likely?) option along those lines would be congressman Mike Turner.

[caddie]

I like Vance, he is brave, he is also reality-based because of his upbringing but does not appear to have a hidden agenda or grind axes because of his past.

Legally he is restrained and smart.

The best thing is he is young, relatively new to Washington (exact opposite of Biden in this regard), and capable of following Trump in 2028 as POTUS as a real contender.

In interviews on TV he as an equanimity and wisdom greater than his years.

Although a younger person he does not speak in condescending cant or slogans a la JFK.

Last he does not bore the hell out of me with interminable diarrhea-mouth like most candidates who act as if they are being paid piecemeal for the number of words that come out of their pie-holes.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Interesting…

But there’s more than one way to fight.

I would guess:

• Trump will choose someone you do not expect
• that person will be chosen to move him closer to a huge victory
• trump may not be thinking that VP will follow as the nominee for potus next time - but will leave the seat open for his son

[batazoid]

If Trump pulls a sitting Republican Senator out of the Senate to be his VP, he had better be sure the Democrats don’t win the Senate on Nov. 5th. Because if they do, they will try and impeach and remove Trump from the presidency in 2025.

[No.6]

The primary responsibility of a Trump VP is to scare the —— out of the left and RINOs at the possibility of that person being President should something remove him from office.

Otherwise we can expect another litany of fake impeachments and other orchestrated events to derail 47.

The Dems know this trick. Clinton picked green warrior Gore, Obama Biden, and Biden Harris.

[Wuli]

No. Trump will not pick another Trump for V.P., he does not need to emphasize his Trump base, it will vote for him. He will pick someone that shows a broader appeal for the general election, where swing states and independents in them could make all the difference for a victory.