Posted on 06/25/2024 2:17:51 PM PDT by conservative98
As far as we know, Nikki Haley isn’t on the short list, nor on the long list. There’s no indication that she’s being considered as Donald Trump’s VP pick, and Trump forcefully smacked down a report in Axios that the campaign was looking at her.
She’d still probably be the choice who, more than any other possible pick, would help Trump win in November.
By conventional rules, the former South Carolina governor getting the nod would be so obvious as to be completely unremarkable — she’s the runner-up in the nomination fight; she represents a different faction of the party; she provides demographic balance; she has executive and foreign policy experience; and she’s ready, to the extent this can be judged by resume and experience, to be president. Paint-by-numbers politics would make her a top contender, if not a shoo-in.
If, that is, she hadn’t criticized Trump in harsh and personal terms during her primary campaign. It’s one thing to criticize another candidate’s tax plan; and another to say he’s “diminished,” “unhinged,” “saying things that don’t make sense” and “not qualified” to be president. Any nominee would have a hard time swallowing those types of gibes, and Donald Trump is, shall we say, more sensitive to slights than most.
Trump gave as good as he got, turning what should have been a celebratory event the night he won the New Hampshire primary into an anti-Haley revival meeting.
All of this, though, is why her selection would be a shock and a potentially galvanizing moment in the campaign — it would show Trump to be willing to forgive and forget and put aside his personal feelings in the cause of saving the country from a second Biden term.
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“She’d still probably be the choice who, more than any other possible pick, would help Trump win in November.”
No she is not; Rich.
More important than the (probably negligible) impact a VP pick will have on the election is having someone who could be a good President if the President died or was killed. (That was Lincoln's big mistake in 1864, putting Andrew Johnson on the ticket.) Haley would never have a chance of being elected on her own because she wouldn't ever be able to convince people she would make a good President.
She is the only person on earth that can turn the south blue.
That was my first thought.
Why would anyone think, that Trump would need help to make even marginal gains in his support this fall? The VP selection rarely if ever makes a difference in the demographics, even for Democrats, And Trump is enough of a force of nature to carve out his own path on demographic considerations.
Trump’s choice will be based on who can continue the MAGA program after he leaves office.
In your dreams,,,,JD Vance is the man.
Icky Nicky. NO.
Ha, ha, ha....too funny
If Nikki Haley is the answer, the wrong question is being asked.
Well heck rich, why no Gabby? Fidiot!
Wondering how much $$$$ Mitchie got for tossing this out there?
No thanks Rich. You run for President and choose her as your running mate if you want her so bad.
Don Surber coined “passive-aggressive pansy” to describe Lowry.
He led the #NeverTrump group in Feb. 2016 at National Review. “Pansy” doesn’t do his brand of p**sy justice.
Please, God forgive me, but my initial reaction is.... Barbra Streisand BS, bull hockey crap...and I’m being polite.
U are still butt hurt.
Nope, Not Going To Happen.
No matter how much the Globalists pukes want it.
She is FAKE.
The name of this author sticks out to me. I think I recall Rick Lowry as a particularly loathsome RINO / Bush / McCain type.
If Trump were to pick her, or some other establishment hack like her, he’d lose more support than he’d gain, this is the establishment trying their best to create reality.
ROTF! Neocon Nimrata is thankfully done. Her political career is over.
Maybe Liz Cheney already declined?
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