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Nikki Haley is still the strongest VP pick
The Express ^ | JUN 25, 2024 | Rich Lowry

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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To: conservative98

Trump needs all the states he won in 2020 and then some. Writing off some of the Southern states by picking Nikki would be colossally stupid. Unfortunately as a New Yorker, Trump may not understand Southern attitudes.


61 posted on 06/25/2024 2:43:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: tired&retired

Nikki has the magic touch.

As governor of the first state to join the Confederacy she trashed their history in a orgy of virtue signaling.

As a member of the Boeing Board of Directors she helped turned a formerly outstanding company into a dumpster fire.

Then she blew $100M of campaign contributor funds in the second worst dollar per delegate performance in US history—Jeb Bush remained number one.

I would not hire her to take my trash to the curb. She probably would feed it to the local bear instead.


62 posted on 06/25/2024 2:47:52 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: All

The same agencies that propped up Biden’s lies and hid his crimes, will see Nikki undermines and works for the other side, until she takes the reigns.

She’s into Defense money as it is.


63 posted on 06/25/2024 2:48:12 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: Verginius Rufus

As Mark Levin said he doesn’t need someone like a Nikki Haley who is going to backstab him for 4 years and spend the whole time running for President. And as The Red Eye guys said last night he doesn’t need a VP pick to help him win. He’s doing really well already.


64 posted on 06/25/2024 2:48:52 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: All

Lowry = Michael Steele of yesteryear.

His only worth to the Dems is in claiming he’s a Republican voice.


65 posted on 06/25/2024 2:51:08 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: MayflowerMadam

While I may have certain views (🤮) of Ms. Ambassador to the UN (US out of the UN), and disappointments with her earlier statements of not “Running if PRESIDENT TRUMP is running” (The LYING B*tch 🤮)...I do not wish to disparage the dishonest, lying, racist, narcissistic former Presidential Candidate (🤮).


66 posted on 06/25/2024 2:51:51 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: conservative98

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67 posted on 06/25/2024 2:51:57 PM PDT by ZULU (Remember Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley)
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To: conservative98

No. She doesn’t think. She immediately called Vivek “scum” for pointing out her own hypocrisy.


68 posted on 06/25/2024 2:52:20 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: conservative98

Not no, but HELL, NO!


69 posted on 06/25/2024 2:53:05 PM PDT by Alan Rumack
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To: poinq

Pence II...no thanks!


70 posted on 06/25/2024 2:53:28 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: conservative98

Rich is a RINO’s RINO.


71 posted on 06/25/2024 2:54:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Mount Athos

You mean ANOTHER check from Soros!


72 posted on 06/25/2024 2:54:08 PM PDT by Wish2Post
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To: conservative98

Concern troll article - pure nonsense.


73 posted on 06/25/2024 2:55:01 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: conservative98

To replace Harris?


74 posted on 06/25/2024 2:55:36 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: conservative98

NEITHER OF HALEY’s PARENTS WERE USA CITIZENS WHEN SHE WAS BORN.

SHE IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN—CAN NEVER BE

SHE IS AN ANCHOR BABY.

WE HAVE MILLIONS OF THOSE.


75 posted on 06/25/2024 2:56:06 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: conservative98
Nikki Haley is still the strongest VP pick

No. No to the point where I would seriously consider not voting at all if she's on the ticket. I suspect I'm not alone in that. If Trump wants to win, he will keep Haley far, far away from him.
76 posted on 06/25/2024 2:56:17 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: conservative98

This is a straight up MIC New World Order Military psyop operation and social steering attempt. Anyone who would even consider this option is COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MIND.


77 posted on 06/25/2024 2:56:24 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: conservative98

BS.


78 posted on 06/25/2024 2:58:34 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: voicereason

“What kind of idiot writes this stuff?”

Military psyops intelligence operators working for the MIC. And we have a few of our very own right here who will actually agree with this concept.


79 posted on 06/25/2024 2:59:01 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: conservative98

Nikki and Rich deserve each other.


80 posted on 06/25/2024 2:59:51 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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