Posted on 07/06/2016 12:25:57 PM PDT by springwater13
Joni Ernst all but removed herself from Donald Trump’s vice presidential search, telling POLITICO in an interview that she wants to help Trump become president but that she’s focused on Iowa and the Senate, where the freshman senator said she's “just getting started.”
The GOP senator met with Trump on Monday and received effusive praise afterward, with Trump predicting he will “see her again.” But it likely won’t be as his running mate.
“I made that very clear to him that I’m focused on Iowa. I feel that I have a lot more to do in the United States Senate. And Iowa is where my heart is,” Ernst said Wednesday. “I’m just getting started here. I have a great partner with Chuck Grassley, we’ve been able to accomplish a lot. And I think that President Trump will need some great assistance in the United States Senate and I can provide that.”
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“Santorum would be better than Newtie.”
Oh, no. Another loser has-been. Haven’t we had enough candidates who couldn’t even deliver their home states?
I thought we had a much deeper bench than this. Surely we have young, exciting, up-and-coming conservatives somewhere in this great country? We shouldn’t have to trot out these warmed-over rejects. Not if we actually want to win.
Foley. Gingrich. Hastert. Pelosi. Boehner. Ryan. None of these does not belong.
Scott Brown was the RINOest member of the Senate.
Horrible choice. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
That deseserves thought
Newt, much as I like him, would be a mistake. He brings nothing electorally, he is a strategist and a how-to guy.
what about the old thing...
get young blood in there... perhaps... start with newt and change to young blood for the second term...
i could do that...
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” he is a strategist and a how-to guy.”
That’s the point. He also can handle himself in the media, and can be the knowledgeable attack dog. We dont need another person put up in the hopes that some sentimental claptrap will somehow “win over” the press, like being a women, or black, or a veteran, or in a wheelchair.
And what name that has been floated, actually brings anything themselves?
And please dont say Scott Walker.
Hopefully after election Trump will push for Hensarling as SOTH.
He needs a worthy ally, not a globalist scumbag.
That is what I favor. 1st term maybe with Newt-although I would still sooner see him as chief advisor to the congress, and then the 2nd term run with a younger guy.
No, but he does become the President of the Senate.
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