Posted on 06/25/2024 2:17:51 PM PDT by conservative98
As far as we know, Nikki Haley isn’t on the short list, nor on the long list. There’s no indication that she’s being considered as Donald Trump’s VP pick, and Trump forcefully smacked down a report in Axios that the campaign was looking at her.
She’d still probably be the choice who, more than any other possible pick, would help Trump win in November.
By conventional rules, the former South Carolina governor getting the nod would be so obvious as to be completely unremarkable — she’s the runner-up in the nomination fight; she represents a different faction of the party; she provides demographic balance; she has executive and foreign policy experience; and she’s ready, to the extent this can be judged by resume and experience, to be president. Paint-by-numbers politics would make her a top contender, if not a shoo-in.
If, that is, she hadn’t criticized Trump in harsh and personal terms during her primary campaign. It’s one thing to criticize another candidate’s tax plan; and another to say he’s “diminished,” “unhinged,” “saying things that don’t make sense” and “not qualified” to be president. Any nominee would have a hard time swallowing those types of gibes, and Donald Trump is, shall we say, more sensitive to slights than most.
Trump gave as good as he got, turning what should have been a celebratory event the night he won the New Hampshire primary into an anti-Haley revival meeting.
All of this, though, is why her selection would be a shock and a potentially galvanizing moment in the campaign — it would show Trump to be willing to forgive and forget and put aside his personal feelings in the cause of saving the country from a second Biden term.
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Totally agree.
I don’t trust her as far as I can spit a watermelon seed. And I’ve had lots of practice.
Wow. The dumb is strong with this one.
Only if Rich wishes to see Trump lose.
Stuff it Rich.
Bite me.
Nikki “Pence” Haley.
Not constitutionally eligible
Rich Lowry
And Charles Cooke
Both truly suck
For the New President Kamala Harris.
No, just NO!
She would be the exact opposite of assassination insurance - The DS would LOVE to get rid of DJT (literally get rid of him) and replace him with this spineless meat puppet of theirs.
NFW!!!!
NO, for the upteenth time, NO!!!!!!!!!
Rich and Bill sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. No more war mongering neocons, not now, not ever. Trump doesn’t exactly have a stellar record with personnel picks, but if he were foolish enough to pick Nikita he’ll have to win Idaho without my vote, which of course he will, but I refuse to be a part of that.
I’ve been trying to avoid ‘if he picks x, I won’t vote for him’ but I’m on record repeated in the past saying this about both Haley and Ramaswammy. I’m just quietly hoping Trump has more sense than to pick either.
Being a butt hurt plugged in beta is no way to live. Snap out of it.
Stop watching anal porn.
Nickey Haley would be a good reason for the Permanent Government to try to remove Trump.
No chance. After her stupid stunt with the Confederate flags issue as Governor, she won’t get a single vote from below the Mason-Dixon line
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