Posted on 05/23/2024 5:18:23 AM PDT by libh8er
Doug Burgum was bracing for disaster at the top of the ticket. “The Clintons might be the luckiest family in the world because Bill doesn’t win in 1992 without Ross Perot,” he told a North Dakota radio show eight years ago, “and Hillary doesn’t win in 2016 without Donald Trump.”
But Clinton did not fall to Trump that year, and the soundbite from the future governor of North Dakota, a bleak sentiment widespread among Republicans at the time, went largely unnoticed. Until now. Perhaps it won’t mean much. Although Trump is a man who knows how to nurture a grudge, he also possesses a mitigating trait – a “What have you done for me lately?” sensibility that may spare Burgum. Because lately, he has been a reliable soldier for Team Trump.
Burgum has recently catapulted from relative obscurity to the top of Trump’s list of possible running mates. Tall with wavy salt-and-pepper hair, the governor looks a bit like a modern George Washington. Some close to the former president describe him as “straight out of central casting” for a potential vice president. The entrepreneur who sold his software company to Microsoft before entering politics is rich, good looking, and loyal – qualities Trump values above all else.
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Let’s not forget that J.D. Vance said much worse about Trump in 2016.
Burgum is a great VP candidate and I really hope POTUS Trump has Doug under short list consideration.
“Auditioning” is an apt comment. Auditioning to be Trump’s on-camera advocate. We have 4 months to look him and the others over.
Burgum has not ever been a Never Trumper. He shouldn’t be lumped in with those lunatics. Even if he had been a Never Trumper I would be open to the possibility that he changed his mind.
He is a stinking globalist. No thanks.
Rich out-of-touch globalist elite-ist. No sale.
No one...NO ONE...has nice things to say about everyone.
Politics is not nice...if someone treats you nice ..they want something.
And not to alarm anyone but Trump is far...FAR ..from being the meanest. And he didn’t invent nasty politics.
I guess Trumps problem was he didn’t pretend to like someone while stabbing them in the back? Like the majority of the hacks running out country in the ground
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