Posted on 01/10/2024 7:49:27 PM PST by Red Badger
Former President Trump on Wednesday suggested he knows who’s in the running as his vice presidential pick should he win the GOP nomination.
Trump attended a Fox News town hall in Iowa, where anchor Martha MacCallum asked who would be in contention to join him on the Republican ticket.
“Well I can’t tell you that really. I mean, I know who it’s going to be,” Trump said.
Asked if he’d be willing to consider any of the people who ran against him in the primary, Trump indicated he would.
“I’ve already started to like Christie better,” Trump quipped, a reference to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) dropping out of the primary race earlier in the day and criticizing fellow candidate Nikki Haley in the process.
NBC News reported that a Trump campaign adviser clarified that nothing is finalized in terms of a vice presidential pick.
Trump is the dominant frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, maintaining a comfortable lead in national and state-level polling dating back to when he announced his candidacy in November 2022.
Polling averages from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ show Trump leading his GOP rivals by 53 percentage points in national surveys, by 36 points in Iowa and by 11 points in New Hampshire.
Trump has largely been mum about who he might choose as a running mate, though he has named South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) as an option he’d consider. The former president is not expected to pick his previous running mate and vice president, Mike Pence, for another campaign.
Trump allies have pushed for a female running mate, with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) and Haley among others mentioned.
The Party that sits with their thumb up their *ss?
NOT THIS TIME!
I doubt it. Sarah Palin was not the GOPe pick in any way or form back in 08. But then again, after that was Ryan and Pence!
I do hope Trump doesn’t take any House Republicans unless they’re in the safest of districts. Also, the more conservative they are the better for us they stay in the House and fight the Uniparty.
HARDLY!
You’re living on 2020 fumes.
100% MAGA!
Nothing else is acceptable.
they don’t get much further left than kennedy ...
“Asked if he’d be willing to consider any of the people who ran against him in the primary, Trump indicated he would.“
Trump is just not the viscous vindictive guy he is portrayed to be. When he says things like this l wonder why he draws such hatred for him.
MTG would be amazingly crazy!
A lot of “don’t miss” TV.
Vivek Ramaswamy should be the VP.
Fauci?
You meant RUINING a country, right?
“I’ve already started to like Christie better,”
Trolling, Trolling, Trolling
The GOP is Folding
Keep them MAGA rolling
Landslide!
Maybe of ruining not running.
You win by 3 minutes.
MTG and Boebert were great at first and now both are dumpster fires
Me.
We’ve been talking.
Vivek would be better as Press Secretary. He chews up reporters and spits them out. Totally smart with zero bullschtein.
It is not true. The presidential candidate chooses his running mate. The presidential candidate undoubtedly seeks advice from people in his inner circle, but ultimately he makes the decision.
He learned his lesson. It won’t be no Washington insider like Pence.
van drew, the former rat?
>>>Precisely—and because he represents critical crossover appeal to former “rats” or more appropriately rational democrats like me who’d be crucial in swinging either NJ or NY to Trump’s EV column.
Trump actually welcomed him into the Oval Office shortly after he became a republican.
Picking her as his UN ambassador says there’s a relationship there..
That she’s now running second in the polls, coupled with both only leveling lukewarm criticisms at one another points to a potentially strong ticket.
Not my first choice, but winning is the priority.
Stephen Miller can be the Press Secretary. You need someone high profile like Vivek as the VP who knows how to "handle" the media
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