Posted on 03/16/2022 1:47:31 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump is acknowledging that his not-yet-launched 2024 presidential bid would not include his former vice president.
Trump told the Washington Examiner his hypothetical run for re-election would most likely not select former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate. "I don't think the people would accept it," Trump said, alluding to his supporters' anger with Pence for failing to support Trump's false claim he actually won the 2020 race. Trump wanted Pence to somehow overturn the election's results during the congressional certification of the Electoral College votes, notes the Examiner, but Pence explained he didn't have constitutional authority for such a move.
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Once again, an MSM article puts the 4-digits ‘2024’ in the title, but ALL the direct DJT quotes make no mention of that number.
I can all but guarantee that in whatever speech or whatever where this article is derived from, there is NO direct mention of 2024.
Without fixing 2020, there is NO 2024, let alone 2022.
Exactly.
Pence is yesterday’s news.
Now I would be excited if Tulsi was his VP.
And he’s absolutely correct. We’re trying to weed out the traitors to America. Not add to them
Laughable!
I’m hoping for a Trump/Trump ticket for 2024.
I can't see DeSantis as VP. He's too straightforward and independent. I personally think he's our best bet as Top Dog, but he may not think it's worth it.
I’d take Tulsi Gabbard over Pence, if she would swear off baby killing. Some Republicans would be ahead of her, of course.
He was a disappointment.
No balls.
A typical career politician that makes calculated moves and worries about appearances.
Agree. Pence is a wuss and a big zero.
Trump-DeSantis 2024.
Winners for sure.
Better to just kill the talk, people love to create goblins over nothing. Normal pre-positioning.
Liberals are already claiming Trump is breaking campaign laws by saying he’s going to run “too early”.
Tiffany won’t be old enough, she is the only Trump child that is a natural born citizen.
Nope. Tulsi is a Rat globalist.
No she’s just a sweetheart who is misunderstood.
There is no “think” about it-—anyone with half a brain and even tepid patriotism would STONE the traitor Pence. Look at the complete misery Mushbrain and his entourage of absolute lunatics and freaks have caused us all, because Pence was a bought-off traitorous coward.
Nearly identical language is reiterated in the Twelfth Amendment, altered as follows: "The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves...."
The way this has been interpreted, is that the President and Vice President cannot be voted upon by the Electors of any one state should both the President and Vice President candidates be inhabitants of the same state as the Electors of that state. Since both DeSantis and Trump are inhabitants of Florida, that would deny the right for Florida to have its electoral votes counted, and therefore violate the equal protection of law under the Constitution.
This is a rather convoluted interpretation, but all entirely within the wording of the Constitution.
“To heck with the people.”
UHhhh...
I think WE are “the people” Trump has in mind when he says this; he KNOWS his base pretty well.
If Trump picked Pence, then I would only assume Trump was compromised. Trump would lose my vote.
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