Posted on 01/15/2024 8:07:11 AM PST by nikos1121
AT a recent Town Hall, hosted by Fox, President Trump was asked who would be his Vice President.
He replied, that he already had someone in mind, but would not say at this time.
We've all seen the list, that includes inexplicably people like Nikki Haley, Desantis and Ramaswamy.
Another list has people with some credibility like Tulsi Gabbard, Bryan Donalds and a few others like Rand Paul and even Robert Kennedy Jr.
In my mind, there is only one choice.
PLEASE LET IT BE BEN CARSON.
I can't think anyone better.
Any other name that comes to mind will part of the swamp, not loyal to Trump, incompetent, narcissistic etc.
Ben Carson, along with a hundred other reasons, can change this white supremacy nonsense moniker that they've put on Trump immediately.
He can be a great ambassador for minorities. No one can doubt that.
He can deliver, like he did when President Trump put him in charge of vitalizing the inner cities, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Globally, he'd be great. Can you just imagine?!
Everywhere he'd go people, esp in this hemisphere and Africa will flock to him.
Ben Carson would be the kind of person, every young man and woman regardless of color would aspire to become.
I can think of a thousand other things, but you get my message.
Even the media would embrace him.
In short, Ben Carson would be Trump's Yang.
Haley is a WEF graduate. Do you want a globalist as VP that would become President if something happened to President Trump? I sure don’t!
Stefanik is the only female I’d be ok with. She seems ok and she might help with New York.
She has possibility. She’s Conservative, and I would imagine the way she’s been attacked(verbally), she would have an axe to grind against the left.
As a devout Seventh Day Adventist, I doubt Ben Carson is now or has been “stoned” as you say.
” Nikki is not my choice, but she will bring in the swamp votes, for which Trump must have. Angry Trumpers alone cannot get Trump the win”
Maybe GOPe needs to hold their nose for the good of the party this time. You types always act like MAGA voters must always support the establishment candidate. But at the same time, we must appease GOPe or they will sit it out.
Funny how GOPe never has to support MAGA and reserves the right to undermine Trump with merry abandon, but GOPe smugly tells us we must vote for their people because it’s most important that the party wins.
Being “very conservative” is not a qualification for any office. It’s a temperament, or belief system.
And getting black voters? Don’t be ridiculous.
Just saying he looks stoned. Not that he is.
PDJT deserves credit for having much more class than his opponents in 2016 when he politely waited for Dr. Carson to finally take his place on the debate stage. Chris Christie et al rudely brushed past the befuddled Carson, but PDJT patiently waited his turn.
Nikki Haley is an ineligible globalist POS. What possible reason would you want that nightmare a heart beat away from the presidency? Trump isn’t going to pick her or any others from the campaign. Its going to be someone from the inner circle of 10.
“His parents divorced when he was eight years old, and thereafter he lived with his mother and brother, spending a brief period in Boston and later returning to Detroit.”
Just a point of interest that I learned in a speech I heard Ben give a few years ago.
His parents divorced after his mother learned that his father had another wife with kids in another town. He was committing bigamy and as soon as his mom learned of it she sued for divorce.
And, his mom’s work in those early years was as a domestic.
As Ben tells it she came home one day and asked her two boys what she was doing at work all day. They had their answers, but she said “I’m spying”, “spying on how they live, what the parents do, and what their kids are allowed and not allowed to so”, “and from that we’re going to have some changes around here”. That was when she started making more education demands on her boys.
Nope. Nikki Haley is a lying, nasty, back-stabbing, disloyal, establishment, bitch. If she knocked on my door, I’d call the police.
I’m thinking Rachel Levine can lend him his wig. It will give the impression that a presidential candidate will have a competent woman of color as his VP.
LOL. Well said.
Not a bad choice.
Would be awesome TV with him and Kamala on a debate stag.
“No! As accomplished as he is, he is so low energy. We’re all talking about how the world does not fear Biden; it would be the same case with Carson.”
I think Ronald Reagan and GW Bush were the only recent Presidents I know who chose a running mate who they thought could actually take the “Commander in Chief” role if something happened to them (GHW Bush under Reagan and Dick Cheny under GWBush).
Most often V.P. picks have not been successors to the President they served and sometimes I think some Presidents prefer it that way (avoids an over-ambitious V.P. under them).
I think Biden chose Harris because he could check two “idenity” boxes with her - woman and “minority” - and with ZERO other consideration.
I think Trump will not pick a V.P. who would be so great that they could be seen as a successor. Ben Carson would be good for electoral reasons and fit that bill.
“Surgeon General.....THAT would be the obvious post for Dr. Carson in my mind.”
Either Ben or the head medical guy under De Santis in Florida - he was totally behind ending the lock downs and school closures.
I would go for Tim. I’m not sure he’d be Trump’s pick.
No Nimratta. Just plain ol' NO.
One has heard talk here and there that she's fun to party with though.
No, but i am amazed you think there’s a similarity between Carson & Pence! However, I think a vp selection who doesn’t immediately start making himself distinct from Trump and thus undermines him! Doing so in order to position himself\herself for 2028 election would not be helpful. If you noticed I give two reasons why Ben as vp candidate would be unlikely.
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