Posted on 05/03/2024 7:09:53 AM PDT by rod5591
Former President Donald Trump has laid out the most concrete timeline yet for when he might select his running mate for the 2024 Republican ticket.
“I’ll be picking, but probably not too much before the convention, which I happen to be having in the great state of Wisconsin,” the presumptive GOP nominee told FOX 6 Milwaukee during a campaign visit to the battleground state Wednesday.
The Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee July 15-18. Traditionally, the vice presidential nominee will address the delegates on the penultimate night of the gathering.
A source familiar with the conversation previously told The Post that biotech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy is almost definitely out of the running for VP, while allies of the former president said South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has “no shot” at the position after she recounted a 20-year-old story about killing her dog.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also ruled himself out as Trump’s running mate in a February call with donors.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that the former president had narrowed his choices to four top contenders: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Republican Sens. JD Vance of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina.
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“Vibe” with objective support.
At some point about 4-5 moths ago, Trump sad he’d already made his VP pick and around the same time is when Vivek joined his campaign.
I don’t care what Bloomberg and the Lying Leftist Media says.
I’m still hoping Vivek will be his VP as Vivek is the ONLY one on the national stage who has consistently uttered words and intentions that will move MAGA into 2028 and beyond after Trump is gone.
It can’t be DeSantis or Rubio. The president and veep can’t be from the same state.
>>Does anyone out there think we need to appeal more to the intellect on a constant basis?
No doubt. Our schools need to return to the task of actually educating students and preparing them to be thoughtful members of society. Civics needs to be taught in school like it once was and students need to be taught about what’s right with our culture, not just what’s wrong with it. The country flourished when it didn’t hate its history or feel the need to denigrate worthwhile institutions and beliefs just because they had roots in European civilization.
I now agree that Vivek would be the best one for the job. I hope he is the one - he’s very well spoken, and fearless.
😳🤫Be careful how you respond to Jim W N. He’s apparently the grandpa of Free Republic & thinks he’s qualified to lecture us what the facts are & whether they’re allowed. For those that disagree with him, he let’s them know they’ve entered his “no fly zone” & dismisses them by recommending they “crawl back under a rock”. There’s some other Boomer language scattered in there by a guy who watched Terminator in 1984 and apparently thought trying to speak in a cadence similar to his would come of super trendy & cool! 👍👌🫡😎🤣
I favor Vance: he is a superstar, articulate, committed, seems to be a great guy.
Yes, but Trump could anoint Vance as his 2028 successor. He would not be a figurehead.
Doesn’t Burgum’s term as governor expire in January? Vance is just too good to pass up, it seems to me.
I like Zeldin too but strongly prefer Vance.
He is also a henchman of Lisa Murkowski.
AG should be Paxton; Monica Crowley should be treasury secretary.
Thank you no. I know that non-insane leftists are a rare breed, but she’s one. We don’t need a leftist as the back up to an octogenarian president
I got it. Your vibe that Vivek is trustworthy is based on objective support. Mine is just a vibe (eye roll). You’re getting tiresome. I already gave you objective support for why I don’t trust Vivek. His campaign to convince caucus voters to “Save Trump. Vote Vivek” revealed his opportunistic, disingenuous nature.
You want more? Just look at how much his “beliefs” have changed since 2020. His sudden “embrace” of MAGA is a shift from comments such as this one, made a week after the Jan. 6th “insurrection”.
“What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple. I’ve said it before and did so in my piece.”
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1348946429952237569?s=20
And here’s what Vivek had to say in his 2022 book, “Nation of Victims” about Mike Pence’s role on Jan. 6th:
Mike Pence, a man I have great respect for, decided it was his constitutional duty to resist the president’s attempts to get him to unilaterally overturn the results of the election, even in the face of the January 6 Capitol riot,”
Then on August 27th on NBC’s “Meet The Press”, he had this to say:
“There was a historic opportunity that (Pence) missed to reunite this country in that window.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vivek-ramaswamy-changed-characterization-jan-6/story?id=102602093
Wasn’t the basis for your “informed opinion” that Vivek has been consistent in his statements?
Moving on, Vivek has been critical of Trump’s claim that the election was stolen, characterizing him as a sore loser. In his book, Vivek claimed he hadn’t seen evidence of outcome-altering election fraud. To my knowledge, he’s never recanted those statements. Being that this has been one of the few issues on which he’s stayed consistent (so far, at least) I won’t accuse him of flip-flopping on that but just being wrong.
No doubt Vivek made a calculated decision to differentiate himself from Trump in the lead up to announcing his candidacy. Then by the time primary season rolled around, his strategy changed to singing Trump’s praises. That’s all well and good, but it begs the question as to why he was running. Vivek’s positions on other issues, from funding for Israel, defending Taiwan, decriminalizing drugs, to pardoning Hunter Biden, have ranged from vague and non-committal to contradictory. Now if that record spells consistency to you then, I don’t know what to tell you.
I’ve given you an incomplete list of my objective support. Where’s yours?
Paxton would be fine as well. Both men have records of fighting and winning.
Just no more milquetoast senators or Papa and Junior Bush's swamp creatures.
Vivek is too young and not that popular. He’d be good in the cabinet though.
Vance has been very successful in life. When people who don’t know his back story see him they don’t think he’s somebody who came up from the bottom.
Rubio’s from Florida where Trump lives. Neither is going to move and Trump is likely to win Florida even without Rubio.
Burgum is from a state that has few electoral votes and that Trump will carry anyway. His business success backstory is similar to Trump’s and it’s not clear how much Trump could trust him.
🤣🤣. Well done. Your description is spot on! As the saying goes, “Pompous asses gotta pompous ass”.
“A” people hire “A” people.
“B” people hire “C” people.
Make of it what you will.
Vance or Tulsi.
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