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Trump says 'the people' wouldn't 'accept' Pence as his 2024 VP
The Week ^ | 03/16/2022 | Summer Meza

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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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


21 posted on 03/16/2022 2:08:02 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly.


22 posted on 03/16/2022 2:08:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pence is yesterday’s news.
Now I would be excited if Tulsi was his VP.


23 posted on 03/16/2022 2:08:48 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And he’s absolutely correct. We’re trying to weed out the traitors to America. Not add to them


24 posted on 03/16/2022 2:09:20 PM PDT by albie
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If Pence didn't have any power over the certification of the process then he would not have any role at all. Is he expecting us to believe that his role was a mere formality?

Laughable!

25 posted on 03/16/2022 2:09:53 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m hoping for a Trump/Trump ticket for 2024.


26 posted on 03/16/2022 2:10:19 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
... DeSantis is the man.

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.

27 posted on 03/16/2022 2:10:40 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d take Tulsi Gabbard over Pence, if she would swear off baby killing. Some Republicans would be ahead of her, of course.


28 posted on 03/16/2022 2:11:38 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Ronin

He was a disappointment.

No balls.

A typical career politician that makes calculated moves and worries about appearances.


29 posted on 03/16/2022 2:11:53 PM PDT by Red6
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To: McGavin999

Agree. Pence is a wuss and a big zero.


30 posted on 03/16/2022 2:13:29 PM PDT by Lumper20 (ll Dems )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump-DeSantis 2024.

Winners for sure.


31 posted on 03/16/2022 2:13:32 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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”.


32 posted on 03/16/2022 2:13:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: A Cyrenian

Tiffany won’t be old enough, she is the only Trump child that is a natural born citizen.


33 posted on 03/16/2022 2:17:35 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Nope. Tulsi is a Rat globalist.


34 posted on 03/16/2022 2:18:15 PM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

35 posted on 03/16/2022 2:18:17 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: RatRipper

No she’s just a sweetheart who is misunderstood.


36 posted on 03/16/2022 2:19:28 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


37 posted on 03/16/2022 2:20:05 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Dilbert San Diego
A Trump and DeSantis ticket is prohibited by the wording of the Constitution, as stated in Article II of the Constitution and modified by the Twelfth Amendment. [The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.]

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.

38 posted on 03/16/2022 2:20:06 PM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: DoodleDawg

“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.


39 posted on 03/16/2022 2:21:12 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Trump picked Pence, then I would only assume Trump was compromised. Trump would lose my vote.


40 posted on 03/16/2022 2:22:10 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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