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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Who came up with this pantload?
Go away Nikita.
BS
In RINO dreams.
No she isn’t. Not in any way whatsoever. Also, far as we know she isn’t even on Trump’s short list.
Let’s say (for the sake of argument only) that Trump picks Haley. He won’t but like I said, let’s say he does.
What are all of you gonna do about it?
Walk out on Trump? Vote third party? Feel betrayed for the rest of your lives? Promise to never again utter his name out loud?
I’m voting for him no matter WHO he picks! I’m gonna assume there’s a strategy at play here.
Why? Who thinks so?
Good grief!
Sounds just like him!
Yea right! Not!
Rich Lowry is the new Bill Kristol
i’m guessing the journalist got a check from soros
Nikki, the choice candidate of the CIA and Deep State.
She would be a death sentence for Trump. She would be equivalent to JFK selecting Johnson.
Senior or Junior? Actually, it doesn't matter.
She is back-stabbing skank. She’s as bad as any of the disgusting MSNBC or The View creatures.
No. Her girl power crap is infuriating.
Nikki Haley = Marcus Junius Brutus
Rich Lowry is a neocon RINO idiot.
In a decade or two she'll be called Nikki Harold Stassen.
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