Posted on 01/17/2024 3:58:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
The former president has spoken highly of the New York congresswoman, and his allies say she's high on the list of vice presidential prospects.
WASHINGTON — During a candlelit dinner with Mar-a-Lago members in late December, former President Donald Trump walked around the table as the conversation turned to one of the biggest decisions he’d have to make should he become the Republican nominee: Whom should he pick to be his running mate?
That’s when Rep. Elise Stefanik, the hard-charging upstate New York Republican, came up, according to a person at the dinner table. Attendees around Trump raved about her viral moment just weeks before, when she grilled three university presidents at a congressional hearing about antisemitism on campus.
At the thought of Stefanik as a possible choice for vice president, Trump nodded approvingly.
“She’s a killer,” Trump said, according to the person at the event.
Ever since then, Trump and a growing group of allies have started to look more closely at Stefanik as a running mate, according to eight people familiar with the matter, including people in Trump’s orbit, Stefanik fundraising bundlers and former Trump administration officials.
At the time, the 39-year-old congresswoman was at the crest of a wave of national publicity after taking on the top leaders of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their answers to the question, “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your college’s] rules on bullying and harassment?” eventually resulted in two of them resigning and brought a firestorm of criticism on the schools.
“That is a ridiculously gross exaggeration of what actually transpired.”
It would have been except the breaking in on the answer and raising her voice during the process was evident. It displayed frustration and anger. I was watching it. It could have been handled a lot better.
wy69
“I think she proved with the outcome that she WAS a clear thinker..”
She might have been right on the situation but the way she handled it was wrong. It displayed a person that could be taken out of thinking and into emotion that is not the sign of a sound leader. It builds no confidence and creates an image of lack of control to handle issues in a civil manner. And that’s what government is supposed to do not start a screaming effort to overpower the other person. That’s liberal.
wy69
“...not a clear thinker...”
A clear thinker we need in government is one who can calmly and quietly get the point across acting like an adult and discussing an issue. She broke into an answer, yelled at the individual, and displayed an action I would equate to a liberals’s way of doing something. That’s not a responsible way of doing things.
wy69
He speaks softly and carries a big stick.
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