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Nikki Haley is still the strongest VP pick
The Express ^ | JUN 25, 2024 | Rich Lowry

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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To: conservative98

George Will agrees.


41 posted on 06/25/2024 2:35:17 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: conservative98

I’d rather see Tulsi. I don’t trust her either. But she seems less phony.

Maybe Trump could actually find a conservative?


42 posted on 06/25/2024 2:35:21 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: conservative98

Please NO.....


43 posted on 06/25/2024 2:36:36 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: conservative98

uh...no.


44 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:07 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: conservative98

Lowery is delusional. Or it’s his never-Trumper stealthy way of destroying the Trump campaign.


45 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:11 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: MplsSteve

Then prepare to kiss 2028 goodbye


46 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: conservative98

Barf. Why are you posting this #NeverTrump garbage without comment?


47 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:32 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: conservative98

Nope


48 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: conservative98

49 posted on 06/25/2024 2:38:00 PM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: conservative98
Great steaming piles of 🐂💨💩
50 posted on 06/25/2024 2:38:07 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Ouch


51 posted on 06/25/2024 2:38:16 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: conservative98

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.


52 posted on 06/25/2024 2:38:44 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: conservative98

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮


53 posted on 06/25/2024 2:39:34 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: conservative98

Give it up, Rich.


54 posted on 06/25/2024 2:39:58 PM PDT by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: conservative98

Even Donald the Great couldn’t overcome that pick. Sure loser; thus, it’s not going to happen.


55 posted on 06/25/2024 2:40:09 PM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: HippyLoggerBiker

Go ahead. Tell us what you really think. 😉


56 posted on 06/25/2024 2:40:38 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: conservative98

How ridiculous.

It figures its that stupid butthead Rich Lowry.


57 posted on 06/25/2024 2:40:57 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: conservative98

Yesterday it was DeSantis


58 posted on 06/25/2024 2:41:07 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: conservative98

Total rubbish.


59 posted on 06/25/2024 2:41:53 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: conservative98

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!!!!


60 posted on 06/25/2024 2:42:08 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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