After losing 6 straight primaries where people actually get to vote, he decides to pick a woman to help him. How pathetic is that? I don’t think that a running mate has been chosen during the primary season before, so it reeks of desperation.
I think it’s illegal. Isn’t there some law about making promises to people for positions in your administration before you are nominated is illegal? It’s like a bribe (not that Ted has any problem with that).
Question: How would a Trumpeter know that RR chose a running mate in 1976 before the convention, if a Cruzader didn’t tell him?
Answer: He found the answer in his box of Crackerjacks.
ACTUALLY, now that we just had the Pennsylvania “loophole” primary, you could see the logic (as well as the desperation) in Reagan’s naming of Sen. Sweickert of Pennsylvania as his running. ALL the district delegates from Pennsylvania are technically unbound. Reagan was hoping Sweickert would bring maybe half of them with him. But, it didn’t work. Ford won the nomination and went on to lose the general election to Carter.
Carly has been a very good campaigner. Also, Heidi. Maybe Ted’s best surrogates.
The female angle isn’t bad. But, I love what Trump did, saying Hillary wouldn’t get 5 percent of the vote if she were a he. Great jujitsu. Raised my already high impression of Trump.
Cruz has to change the narrative in the face of a ton of good news for Trump. If he can get follow-up this VP announcement with an endorsement from Pence, the way he got from Walker in Wisconsin, he might be able to ski through the avalanche.
Newt said last night no candidate names a VP before they’ve secured the nomination. He laughed at the idea and said it was very amateurish.