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Ernst all but withdraws from Trump veepstakes
Politico ^

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.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/joni-ernst-trump-vice-president-225169#ixzz4DetG3ULK Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2016veep; ernst; ia2016; iowa; joniernst; trump
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To: Theodore R.

“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.


141 posted on 07/06/2016 9:04:23 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: VanDeKoik
And you cant really top a former SOTH.

Foley. Gingrich. Hastert. Pelosi. Boehner. Ryan. None of these does not belong.

142 posted on 07/06/2016 9:16:32 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Who is Horatio Bunce?)
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To: ifinnegan

Scott Brown was the RINOest member of the Senate.

Horrible choice. Horrible, horrible, horrible.


143 posted on 07/06/2016 9:17:29 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: crz

That deseserves thought


144 posted on 07/07/2016 4:51:10 AM PDT by datricker (Its morning in America! Sorry Rush, Jim Robinson is the new mayor of Realville)
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To: VanDeKoik

Newt, much as I like him, would be a mistake. He brings nothing electorally, he is a strategist and a how-to guy.


145 posted on 07/07/2016 8:03:19 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: crz

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...

t


146 posted on 07/07/2016 8:21:25 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ecomcon

” 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.


147 posted on 07/07/2016 8:37:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: abb

Hopefully after election Trump will push for Hensarling as SOTH.

He needs a worthy ally, not a globalist scumbag.


148 posted on 07/07/2016 8:49:45 AM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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To: teeman8r

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.


149 posted on 07/07/2016 9:00:49 AM PDT by crz
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To: abb

No, but he does become the President of the Senate.


150 posted on 07/07/2016 11:33:51 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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