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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George Will agrees.
I’d rather see Tulsi. I don’t trust her either. But she seems less phony.
Maybe Trump could actually find a conservative?
Please NO.....
uh...no.
Lowery is delusional. Or it’s his never-Trumper stealthy way of destroying the Trump campaign.
Then prepare to kiss 2028 goodbye
Barf. Why are you posting this #NeverTrump garbage without comment?
Nope
Ouch
I would like Trump to pick the best possible VP.
But he could use Lizzo and I would still vote for him. If I don’t vote for him I’m sending America to her death, whether I vote for someone else or no one else.
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Give it up, Rich.
Even Donald the Great couldn’t overcome that pick. Sure loser; thus, it’s not going to happen.
Go ahead. Tell us what you really think. 😉
How ridiculous.
It figures its that stupid butthead Rich Lowry.
Yesterday it was DeSantis
Total rubbish.
Maybe there are still some ill-informed Republican voters out there that still read something written by Rich Lowry.
However, I expect those who do number in the hundreds.
Rich Lowry gets more readers on FR!!!!
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