'She's a killer': Trump eyes Rep. Elise Stefanik as a potential VP pick

NBC News ^ | 01/17/2024 | By Brian Schwartz, CNBC, Katherine Doyle and Scott Wong

[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.

[Dr. Franklin]

I think Dr. Ben Carson brings the ability to attack the Rats in the urban areas where they cheat so much. Split the average African-American male who wants a good job from the “assertive” African-American woman who is the most reliable vote for the Rats, and that is a big winner politically. MAGA needs to end the Rat fraud machine in the cities. Dr. Ben Carson has proved that he is loyal to Trump. Stefanik, not so much.

[DrHFrog]

Candace Owens....how great would the debate with Kamala be? Pop the corn !!

I think it will be Kristi Noem who will then become the first female President in 2028.

[Thank You Rush]

“Matt Whitaker” “”He’s needed as Attorney General or at the
very least FBI Director. Trump needs someone he can
trust to clean up and reform that DemonRAT Gestapo or
to just shut the damn thing down.””

I hope Trump appreciates that we’re doing our best to choose his next Cabinet for him. I like the idea of Matt Whitaker as AG or FBI director...very impressive from the time he sat on that hearing about that IRS dame - forget her name...Lerner???

[Freest Republican]

Give it time.

Businessmen are on deck.

Even though 90% collude/conspire v MAGA, some barely recognizable names will surface.

[TheGunny]

U you forgot “Boot Licker”, “Ego Caddy”, etc…

[rollo tomasi]

“Killer” as in killing the idea of limited government? The woman is a creature from the Bush/Paul Ryan enterprise (Voting record details that). No thanks, however, Trump is a populists so I guess that would work for some people though.

[coalminersson]

we have the best governors SD, IA, Fla, Tx, I hope they stay there till 2028

[Flavious_Maximus]

In my lifetime, the ONLY woman I ever considered voting for POTUS, is Jeane Kirkpatrick (and maybe Sarah Palin).

History shows that women nearly always gravitate left, the longer they are in office. We have seen that time and again (Nikki Haley, Lizard Cheney, Jenna Ellis, Sandra Day O’Connor, Amy Coney Barrett, Jan Brewer).

It’s a crapshoot. I prefer a fire breathing conservative like Stephen Miller or Wayne Allyn Root.

[Jeff Chandler]

It’s like Disney movie around here recently

ROTFLMBO!

[Thank You Rush]

Candace Owens - as far as I know she’s not crippled....

The “no cripples” was in honor of James Watt in Reagan’s first administration...Not bashful at all!

[Jim Noble]

He was not elected VP or President

[The Duke]

Col. Allen West

[Third Person]

not a clear thinker... oh boy

[fishtank]

You ruined the thread.

Halfway serious halfway kidding.

[montag813]

She won’t help him win New York

[Gnome1949]

I like Stefanik as VP.

We need someone as tough as Trump (and she IS) and her relative youth is a great positive.

Trump can only serve one more term so Elise Stefanik is a solid foundation for MAGA going into the future.

She also puts the obvious lie to the idea that getting rid of Donald Trump ENDS the MAGA movement.

The vile enemies of Trump have been fools to think there is NO BENCH of 5-star recruits from which to draw a great new quarterback for the team.

[Political Junkie Too]

Any potential male candidates?

How did that work out for President Trump the last time?

What's wrong with shaking things up in his second term?

-PJ

[SharpRightTurn]

Heritage Action Lifetime Score: 54%

Average House Republican: 85%

She’s not bad for New York State, but Trump could do a WHOLE lot better than this.

I hope this is just a one day story and has no veracity behind it. We need real game-changer conservatives in the next Trump administration, top to bottom.

[null and void]

Killer.

I was afraid he was talking about the Hildabeast...

[Karl Spooner]

If it's going to be a woman, I would give Margorie Taylor Greene the nod. Both are against abortion, but....

Stefanik

"Voted in favor of The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022, which allowed the lending/lease of American defense materiel to Ukraine. Voted in favor of Amendment 21 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have stricken $300 million of assistance for Ukraine."

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My little Margie

"“Democrats have ripped our border wide open,” she said in Iowa. “But the only border they care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border. Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine. Our country comes first.”