Posted on 04/29/2016 6:45:11 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Female Republican lawmakers are making the case for Donald Trump to choose a woman as his running mate.
Picking a female vice presidential candidate could help mitigate the damage Trump caused with women voters in the primary, they say, as well as counter Hillary Clinton if she is the Democratic nominee.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) offered the idea, somewhat unprompted, at a Capitol Hill event hosted by the Heritage Foundation this week.
When a reporter asked a panel of conservative House Republicans who Trump should choose as his running mate, most lawmakers demurred. But Lummis, the only woman on the dais, didn’t hold back.
“I would suggest a woman, because some of the remarks he has made about women are not going to help him appeal to some of the 53 percent of the voting populace that are women,” Lummis said.
Lummis said Trump would be well served by a running mate with more “discipline” to balance his unpredictability. That would be a better strategy than going the traditional route of choosing a running mate who represents a swing state, she said.
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Trump has already picked his running mate.
Lady Liberty.
[[Susana Martinez. He gets the women and minorities.]]
No it won’t .
I’d agree on him (I wish my name-remembering disability let me remember his!), although I would also say that he needs to be vetted for national public office, quietly, prior to being selected.
That is, I know he is highly qualified by his conservative viewpoints, but the Vice Presidency is a different office than the House of Representatives, so we need to make sure we avoid nominating someone with skeletons in the closet that make them an easy target. I am identifying my own ignorance of this gentleman, and not speculating he has such skeletons.
Only if she’s strong willed like ‘The Iron Lady’- Margaret Thatcher.
Who might meet that requirement?
NM Governor Susanna Martinez - Female and Hispanic, plus executive experience, plus offers the chance to get NM into the Republican column. That’d put to bed ALL of the charges of him being anti-woman and anti-Hispanic. The only possible hitch is her stands on immigration, gun control, etc. - about which I will plead ignorance.
Trump can get the legislative gravitas that he was looking for from having someone like Newt Gingrich be his Chief of Staff.
Well a Newt Gingrich certainly isn’t going to get them. Who do you want?
My understanding is that Martinez is weak on the border, and caters to Hispanics—ie, La Raza.
Next.
NO WAY!!!
I do like her stands on many issues, but she is the kind who’d get fired by Trump on The Apprentice. To much of a lightweight. Put her in at Interior, and Perry at Energy, to ensure that we can Drill, Baby, Drill! on public lands ASAP.
Since I was (and still would be, if he had a reasonable shot) a Cruzer, my advice is worth what I will be paid for it. Nevertheless...
Trump should realize, if he doesn’t already (and I think he does), that his nomination, and eventual election, will be the start of a complete remaking of the Republican Party in a new image—I have some theories about that image, but that is for another thread.
My advice, therefore, is that Trump not think about his VP choice in terms of election strategy, but in terms of succession. I say this for two reasons: first, it is quite possible that he will not survive two full terms, and he needs someone to step in who will not walk back what he accomplishes, and who will continue to work on what he wants to accomplish; second, the GOPe, if they have to participate in a Trump presidency, are going to work to undermine it both during and afterward, and he will need someone to succeed him who will fight against that.
That being said, I have no idea whom that person would be. There is no politician I can think of who is supportive enough of Trump and also young enough to succeed him (e.g., Sen. Sessions is the same age as Trump). He could, if he were willing to risk it, pick a strategic VP for his first term, and then find out who would be the best successor and have that person run with him in 2020, but that could always backfire, as it did with Lincoln picking Andrew Johnson in 1864, or McKinley picking Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, or Kennedy picking Lyndon Johnson in 1960. OTOH, Reagan should have changed his VP in 1984 when he could have afforded to do it politically, for a successor like Jack Kemp or Newt Gingrich, and we’ve been living with the effects of that non-act ever since.
I’d like to see Newt as VP.
Exactly. Put America first- choose the best person for the job.
I agree the left would explode, but I think the McCain camp’s tacit allowance of the treatment she was subjected to has left significant baggage for her to get rid of.
Once again, I have tremendous respect for Sarah, but if she is thrust back into the limelight at the VP level, the left (including the media) are poised to take back up where they left off - and the public at large has not been prepped to counter the lies.
Trump can get the legislative experience from a Chief of Staff - think Gingrich.
Sessions is too old - same age as Trump, you don’t want to have the President and the Veep both in their 70s. That said, I respect Sessions a LOT, and he needs to play a role in the Trump Administration.
PC pandering? Yeah, maybe. But that criticism will last a couple of days assuming that it is someone with some gravitas (i.e. not a Sarah Palin, with 2 years as Gov.). Then there will be the reality that he named a woman to be a heartbeat away - it’ll dispel the false notion that he’s anti-woman.
GOP women are fine. Rush Limbaugh is a problem. Trump should choose the best for VP, with an eye on winning the general and governing after, especially if something were to take him away prematurely.
It’s gotta be Rubio. Gotta have Florida. After his opportunistic bandwagon jumping on amnesty, I said I would never vote for him, but now I think he can maybe be rehabilitated. Let Trump assign him to pushing the wall project - and we’ll see how he does. If he fails, Trump can pull an FDR and drop him in his reelection bid or marginalize him.
[[Well a Newt Gingrich certainly isn’t going to get them. Who do you want?]]
The women are going to vote for Hillary for the most part.
Hispanics for the most part are going to vote Dem .
The Republicans need to stop catering to minorities and pick someone for what they can do and have done and not what sex they were born or their minority status.
He needs to pick someone who is for small government and anti Obama’s mandate that is destroying the country.
BTW I am female and technically Hispanic (mostly Spanish with some British) I am not going to vote for a woman just because she is a woman and Hispanic.
Me!
Trump wins Florida with or without a Rubio type on the ticket.
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