Some of the candidates that Donald Trump selected for vice president surprised me. The one that surprised me the most was Ron DeSantis. I like him very much and could see him as President should something happen to President Trump.
What do you think of the candidates? I expected Byron Donalds and Kristi Noem, but really didn’t think the others would be on the list. It was good not to see Nikki Haley on the list.
I’m interested in what others think.
Breaking News: President Trump says that Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Byron Donalds, Kristi Noem, and Tulsi Gabbard are on his shortlist for Vice President.
pic.twitter.com/bSiH7Hd6QM— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) February 21, 2024
Hell no to Tulsi! Glad Birdbrain Nimarata wasn’t on the list. I would like to see Kari, Mark Robinson, Gaetz or Tucker considered.
RFK Jr. would blow their minds.
‘Splody heads everywhere.
Considering most of his policies are pretty far left, and the fact his family.. planted the seeds for all the bad policy you see today that’s destroying the good ol USA, my head would probably Splody too.
Kari Lake. Kristi Noem, Ron D.
Ron D all the way. Though I do like Vivek – but don’t trust him. Neither woman should be in the running.
After what tiny d pulled with the disloyalty act ,not betting on it.
If he knows what’s good for his campaign. Tulsi won’t be his running made. I mean, he can’t possibly be that disconnected.
Lynne Thigpen type. strong con black woman. media meltdown galore.)
*vote TRUMP kids. Thanks,, signed “your bank account”~
Being as 2 are from Florida and President and VP can’t be from the same state, I don’t take the list seriously (plus Tim Scott is not even a good Senator). Kristi Noem is qualified, but brings little benefit to the campaign,
A slight correction. They can be from the same state, but that state electors can’t vote for both the President and VP from their state. That could result in Trump winning the Presidency and the Democrat VP winning the Vice Presidency.
A very, very risky strategy and any campaign manager that recommended it could be credibly accused of malpractice.
good retail politician, attractive, mistakes and gaffes would be minimal. don’t necessarily trust her tho.
None are great choices, and some are terrible. Trump’s Achilles heel is his inability to pick the right people. In this particular election, the popular nominee doesn’t need electoral “help.” However, he is aged, has a target on his back, can only serve 4 years, and will inherit a world fighting two wars and edging on a third. Not a lot can be permanently changed in 4 years, so we need 8 more follow-on years of a Trumo-Alike, and VPs have an edge. Therefore, NOT a woman (many nations don’t respect)…NOT a novice (Ramaswamy is absurd)…not a RINO (goodbye DeSantis). The only good news is that Nikki the Witchy is NOT on the list.
‘Trump picks terrible’ all u hosebags that keep saying that ignore the fact he had to go around the swamp last time and make nice. The swamp was still in shock he was elected and Trump can’t be be blamed that 99% of Washington are two faced back stabbers.
DeSantis is no were near a Rino. You have ZERO credibility.
All he had to do is kick back in Fl , enjoy the waves and plan for 28 but nooo.The Rinos convinced him Trump was done waved $$ and stardom in his career climbing wife’s face. I am glad he he outed himself as disloyal, weak and pathetic. we will never have to find out the hard way now . he done. move on.
My vote is Devon Nunez. He is detective like smart – started the whole investigation vs CIA. He is courageous – fought harder when attacked. He understands corrupt media – Runs Trump’s TRUTH SOCIAL. He is America First loyal to Trump MAGA – provides absolutely necessary assignation insurance
The dying uni-party and cable news still pushing $$$ for Ukraine. its their way to still feel like they are in control. they are not . meanwhile 10,000000 illegal aliens in 3 short years(ever since the big steal)) are now in the USA. enjoy kids.
That list is for PR purposes.
That is a Laura list? She is wrong on most things. She reports gossip.
Last year at this time right coming off the disappointing 2022 midterm elections, FUX news had a black tie party in Florida, Globalists and Rinos partying the night away. Point is they thought Trump was done, and they were happy.
Kari Lake
They will never let Trump get elected again, just wait and see. Having DeSantis on the ticket will put him in line to run in 2028 (for what good it will do). We nave no free elections.
hope people are waking up. The panic the rubes will feel once its too late to do anything to get back the freedom they took for granted , tho I think too many are dumbed down and like it that way . These globalist and Marxist hate them, yet they refuse or cannot see it.
Noem. He’ll pick her, because she’s the worst candidate on that list. Everything she claimed during Covid was a lie. She was pushing for lockdowns. The state legislature wouldn’t let it happen, and she took credit when it was popular. She bowed to the LGBTABC cult and refused to protect kids in her state by vetoing a law that would do so.
Trump will pick her to prove he’s learned nothing and his next term will just be a worse version of his first. Disappointing.
I think you are disappointing. Trump’s speeches show he learned much. We see that you blame Trump for what corrupt DC did those 4 years.
He was probably one of the “no path to 270′ crowd originally, and ego still hasn’t recovered lol
3rd worse. Both Ramaswamy and Gabbard were on the list of Klaus Schwabs ‘Young Global Leaders’ in 2021.
The Twelfth Amendment doesn’t prevent two people from the same state from running together, what it does do is it doesn’t allow the electors to vote for President and Vice President from their own state. If enough states are won then the VP or President would get the electoral votes from all the states that they won but the state they both come from, so only one would get the electoral votes from that state. As long as both get 270 electoral votes both would be elected. If in this case Trump ran with DeSantis or Donalds and Trump received 300 electoral votes including 30 from Florida, DeSantis or Donalds would not be able to get the 30 from Florida, so they would have 270, still enough to get elected. It would be a very risky strategy.
In a campaign, a VP running mate’s biggest contribution is (1) talking up the positive attributes of the top of the ticket; (2) emphasizing the platform; (3) bringing onboard additional voters, i.e., attracting more fence-sitters than he or she repels. Who would Bannon attract that Trump doen’t already have? Same goes for Kari Lake. I contributed to her campaign for AZ governor. But, as with Bannon, fence-sitters could be turned off by her. DeSantis would be an excellent pick…except for that pesky 12th Amendment issue. Ditto for Byron Donalds.
Those are Republican-stupid reasons for picking a VP, unless the race is razor thin. Given Trump’s age, 4-year limit, and the target on his back, the VP pick should be someone who can continue Trump policies 8 more years and serve without flinching in place of Trump…one who is politically experienced (like a governor), is able to step in immediately if needed, and as radically conservative and steely backboned as Trump.
The VP needs to be someone so Trump-Alike that offing Trump would not get the left anywhere. The biggest thing that saves Biden the Terrible is Harris the Horrible. The Dems are moral filth, but they have less infighting and are far, FAR more politically savvy than stupid Republicans. They also look further out than “who will get me elected.”
Kari Lake is a start , we need more Trumps.
Byron Donalds is a felon. Good grief. I hate that people jump to a man with a thin resume merely because he is black.
Even though she has not been mentioned, I still think Sara Huckabee Sanders is in the running. I know she said she had no interest but if Trump asked, I think she’d do it.
Agree. She would be one of the best to consider. I am not impressed with any on the list in the article for various reasons. Yes, they are good, but they are not the best.
I don’t think the Constitution allows the President & VP to be from the same state. So I don’t think DeSantis could be his running mate.
Not only is Donalds a very articulate speaker, his summations are always based on the truth that can be backed up with facts, documentation and evidence.
He is sharp as a tack, and have never seen him allow the MSM to get away with false statements when they are speaking with him..
Would be proud to have him serve as a VP.
Strikes me as a man of substance and a born leader. But in a close election, there’s always that 12th Amendment issue to contend with. Ditto for DeSantis (who would otherwise be my first choice).
Back in 1996 maybe heh’,throwback vanilla con. he was not wise enough to realized the base did not want him in this cycle. lots of points lost and probably blew his chance for 28. btw* that’s what he gets for listening to his career climbing wife with stage 3 TDS.
You want a felon for Vice-President? I am supporting Trump but huge mistake picking Byron Donalds. A lot of people aren’t going to bother to show up at the polls if he picks Donalds or Scott. Trump lost (supposedly) in 2020 because he lost support amongst the white working class who rallied to his side in 2016; in 2020, Trump forgot this and promoted diversity and letting felons out of prison. Huge mistake.
you would trust Donalds to run the most important country in the world if something happened to Trump? Not to get too ethnocentric for you, but what cities/countries/states have people like Donalds successfully run? And no, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya don’t count.
Vivek has too many close ties to big pharma and took money from the Paul Soros trust,Tulsi has voted with the Communist Democrats too many times, Scott backstabbed Trump concerning the Jan 6th hoax, DeSantis needs to stay in Florida,IMHO he is just another uniparty Republican.
Both Donalds and Noem have fully demonstrated their full support for MAGA and Trump.
Would be happy to support either one of them as a VP pick
Respectfully, I believe Christi Noem has no real conservative core. She said some things that indicated she was confused or seeking truth on a conservative issue.
Nice arms though.
Noem?! She’s proven to be a two faced deep state tool! She vetoed a bill to protect kids from tranny abuse. She worked for lockdowns and when the legislature stopped her, took credit for not doing so when it was popular. Ugh.
Steven K. Bannon
I noticed that these names came to us out of Laura’s mouth. Trump responded with what looked like a agreeable dismissive.
I don’t know if he wants Fox News people to have the answer. They dissed the 2020 voting issuses and left him (and us) out in the cold.
Tulsi Gabbard spent her time voting with Democrats. She now speaks a good game but I can’t trust her.
There are a lot of us who voted for various Democrats, independents or Republicans depending on the person and the policy. JFK, for example, would hardly find a place in the current Democrat/Communist party with “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.
Tulsi was a Bernie supporter. That’s quite a leap…from Socialist to MAGA.
JFK wouldn’t even have a place with today’s Republicans who are more liberal that the Democrats in 1963. Imagine a Democrat or Republican actually questioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its constitutionality??? You, as a private business, have to serve ANYBODY and EVERYBODY even it makes no sense financially. Once this bill became law, freedom was forever gone.
Tim Scott is weird, I don’t like his persona. He also agreed with the other rinos that Jan 6 was Trumps fault. The DS would walk all over him once the kill Trump to put his squeashy VP in. Lindsey Graham would eat him alive. Let’s look at his voting record, he is GOP liter.
I don’t dislike Tim Scott, generally. But when he criticized cops a few years back because they stopped him to ask a few questions, I thoujght his criticism would’ve been better directed toward other young black men who commit most of the street crime in DC, thereby making suspect the majority of young black men who do not commit crimes. If most of the crimes in my neighborhood were being committed by white-haired, blue-eyed old guys, I would expect to be stopped, and if I was, I’d be polite and cooperative…and pissed at all the white-haired, blue-eyed old dudes who were giving my demographic a bad reputation.
Weird in that he likes men, much like Lindsey Graham
He needs to pick Tulsi Gabbard. It checks all the boxes needed to win a POLITICAL race. Female=Check, Minority=Check, Military leader = Check, Used to be a Democrat = Check, Brings a semblance of unity to the parties = Check…. A Trump/Gabbard ticket would spell disaster for Biden/Harris. Its close to the only way I see him winning.
liberal uncheck, socialist uncheck
She is still a Democrat in sheeps clothing and IMHO cannot be trusted.
A look at her voting record shows where her true allegiances lay
so he only wins with a minority? Even though whites are an absolute majority of the electorate. Yeah, he won in 2016 and Mike Pence is not a minority or a woman. Please don’t parrot what the media repeats over and over.
How many of our founders were minorities or women?
The more we become de-Europeanized, the more we decay.
Am I not correct in saying that DeSantis or anyone else from Florida cannot be Trump’s running mate due to the US Constitution saying otherwise? I would love to see Donalds or the Lt. Gov from North Carolina, Mark Robinson, as VP. Not due to them being black, but because of their beliefs. Noem would be fine as well. O, and I wished Haley would just go away or at least shut her mouth with all her lies and bad-mouthing Trump.
Donalds is also from the same state as Trump. Per the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, any campaign that had their Presidential and VP candidates from the same state would handicap their ability to make maximum use of the Electoral College votes for that state. In a close election it would be a disaster for such a campaign.
Mark Robinson walks the walk and isn’t afraid of being politically incorrect. He would also ensure that Trump is president in a fair election because black voters are moving to the Republican party and if Trump gets even 20% of the black vote the Dems are finished.Has to be a fair election though and that is the problem.
Um, whites are 67% of the electorate. Blacks are 11%. so whites outnumber them 6:1. So if each white vote is equal to six black votes. It would be much easier for Trump to work on gaining 5% of white votes, which is equal to 30% of black votes.
But let felons out of prison and expound on black unemployment numbers to get to 20% (which is optimistic). But if you lose even 2% of the white vote, it was all for naught
No. The 12th Amendment of the US Constitution doesn’t bar a presidential candidate and vp candidate from being from the same state, but it does say that electors from that state can’t vote for both a presidential candidate AND vp candidate from their state. So in a super tight election, I guess it’s possible we could end up with our party’s candidate for president serving with the other party’s VP. Not sure how big a risk it would be…but I’d hate to see President Trump having to rely on Vice President Harris for anything.
Kari Lake for VP!
We need her in the senate.
Read all the comments. Note the thinking. Now imagine you are a campaign manager. ow could you recommend anyone because people jumped all everyone but Tim Scott.
Also note how man were simply subjective comments.
Tim Scott is the same type of squishy Establishment type of politician that the South Carolina Republican Party is adept at putting out. Scott is cut from the same cloth as Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley. Look at his record in the Senate.
You are absolutely correct. He has done nothing in the senate. In a book tour, he declared his support for Turtles McConnell and Lisa “Not a Republican” Murkowski and claimed “the jury was still out” on whether or not the Biden DOJ was unbiased. We don’t need no steenkin’ RINOs. The only reason he was running for President was because candidates can purchase their own books with campaign contributions to give away as gifts. He had not sold enough books to pay for the paper it was printed on.
Unfortunately, as good as Trump is on many things, he picks bad people. None of those on his list would be my choice, but the handwriting’s on the wall for Tim Scott. Trump, like many others, has bought into this notion that skin color is more important than competency and ideology. Sad.
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Scott is the worst option of the bunch.
That is Laura’s list! Trump has bought into the idea that this nation is being destroyed and he needs to win to change that. But you are unable to recognize that, sad.
there is only so many people to choose from in reality, and you ids who keep blaming Trump for all back stabbing don’t really have his back. su~
Too bad he can only choose one.
Ron DeSantis, no
Vivek Ramaswamy, no
Tulsi Gabbard, no
I would choose between Tim Scott and Kristi Noem. Ironically it still seems as if Trump is doing the Affirmative Action route of either a women or a black man. I know DeSantis is white but he’s untrustworthy.
he will shock you with a Lynne Thigpen type pick. A louder voice than his .an unknown so the media and establishment can meltdown. lol
Don’t get too worked up. It was Ingraham who named these people, not Trump. Trump just vaguely confirmed they’re on the list of people he’s considered. He did not say or imply that someone like Gabbard has even a remote chance of getting the nod.
Ingraham has no credibility, she has become a RINO gossip reporter.
Tulsi Gabbard should NOT be on that list! She was a demoncrat until recently. So there’s definitely something broke upstairs.
Agreed. Now, substitute her name with Donald Trump, and your statement is just as accurate.
You don’t want Trump putting his own name on his list of vice presidential candidates? Agreed. That sounds like something your fører, Joe Biden, would do.
Trump also was a Dem until he switched parties. So was Reagan.
Up to a few weeks ago, I might have also included Mike Gallagher (Wisconsin) on that list… but he clearly took himself out of any possibility of that….
Terrible short list.
Tucker Carlson?
Tucker doesn’t want it. He had to move his family out of the Washington DC area because the leftist crazies surrounded his house and terrified his wife. He has explicitly said multiple times that he does not want it, in spite of Don Jr’s lobbying for him.
Face it, very very few private sector millionaires like Tucker would subject their private lives and financial histories to intense scrutiny and forego other opportunities just to be a place keeper in a low activity government job.
Tucker would be hands down my choice.
unless there is more video not shown….Trump didnt make this “short list” , Laura did. Trump just sat there and shook his head as if acknowledging what she was saying, not confirming nor denying.
Noem it is!!
A very risky pick. The MSM could “Sarah Palin” her and her family using her extra-marital affair as a cudgel. As a governor of a small state there is little evidence she could handle the full weight of the MSM should it turn on her – and turn on her it will.
Kristi Noem is a grosswhore. She slept with Corey Lewandowski. Go look it up. It’s posted all over online. Everyone in DC knew about it.
Buncha gullible NPCs that dont see the danger she is.
Lake doesn’t want it yet. She is willing to wait her turn, stay in AZ and clean up the mess there…..with the help of Trump from DC. She is an intelligent and driven woman. I pity the idiots who get in her way!!
This is our last chance… If there IS any chance.
I do not want a DEI VP. I appologise to the Women on the short list, That is probably unfair.
Of the males on the list, although I am not liking a nonChristian as a VP, Vivek is a self made Billionaire, has high energy, is well spoken and loves the USA.
I am willing to make the bet that Vivek, can act as advisor to President Trump, because President Trump NEEDS a VP who has the qualities I listed above..
If I and America are wrong, the next step is blood, and 9/10 of the globe perishing.
God Jehovah/Yahweh, Be with us.
Veep is an impotent role… Vivek (for all the reasons you stated) would make a badass chief of staff. Nobody on that list besides Desantis, Tulsi and Noem can help him win a state during the election, but two of those states are likely going to go with Trump anyway… On the other hand, Tulsi could help flip a blue state…
Natural Born means
1) Born on US soil;
2) To parents who are US Citizens.
Obama!
Illegitimate as it gets.
I won’t be voting for Trump. This is a setup. Vivek Ramaswamy is a fraud. His business financial support comes from Jacob Soros. Phizer is working on a joint research project with him, and it has a 25 percent interest in another one of his companies. Ramaswamy was for mandatory Covid vaccines and lockdows. See Clay Clark’s free america website. He’s done all the research. Trump is leading MAGA down the road to destruction.
So, Biden then.
You are 100% right, but Populism is just another name for Mob. And the hive mind has globbed on to Orange Man, so no silly things like facts are going to get in their way. Of course, such mass formation psychosis is not surprising, considering the only real alternative to our current State of Tyranny is dissolution of the Union and subsequent collapse of the world’s entire economic system. I’d embrace that outcome, but I’m representative of about maybe a million people, tops. Our numbers will grow, but it’s cart before the horse right now.
These are who he comes up with. Seems he didn’t learn a damn thing last go round. The most astonishing is Tulsi. Really?? Vivek is mostly a showboat and he would do better as a Press Secretary. Tim Scott seems more like another Colin Powell. From what I’ve seen of Donalds at the State level and in Congress may be someone worthy.
In a new administration I do think a VP will need to be more hands on than any previous VP. The next time he’ll need to do considerably better in choosing personnel. He should dust off the Government Reorganization plan that was on his WH website and have personnel that can work to get it into law. We can see how the use of EO’s for policy is that which doesn’t last and therefore useless in the long run. Trump ended Obama’s and Biden ended Trumps. Policies need to be in bill form and sent to Congress.
The VP should do one thing. Preside over the Senate. Nothing more. Follow the Constitution.
And, um, another kinda important job for VP is to become President when his nearly fossilized boss croaks from extreme old age, coupled with morbid obesity and probably 20 previously undiagnosed STDs that one gets from banging horsefaced retired porn stars.
It says these are on the short list, but it doesn’t say this IS the short list. Someone is missing.
It’s not Trump who didn’t learn a damn thing. It’s his unwavering, easily duped fan(atic) base who clearly didn’t learn a damn thing. Trump was ALWAYS a foil–a fake variable to reassert the control. SlowThe Spread, Wuhan Welfare, and Warp Speed should have opened even the dumbest of would-be free people’s eyes…but nope! We continue to march in lockstep like lemmings toward the next cliff Trump’s masters have for us.
President Trump did many great things while in the White House!
Who ever is picked must be willing to carry forward the MAGA Agenda. That means it must be a person with strong “core” conservative beliefs willing to fight the deep state and Communism and Globalism. After all do you really think our internal enemies would roll over and quit when four years are up? By the end of four years we would know if the VP was right for the job. I knew Pence was not after he called into Rush the third time. He was phony as a three dollar bill.
The GOP attempted to buy off Kari Lake. Her answer was
Kari is my choice. She’s the real deal. She will stand firm no matter what!
VIvik I agree with Peter. The fact that NEOCON Laura brought up Tulsi is bad sign. Although she says much what a conservative would say; Tulsi is not a conservative; she is old fashioned Democrat that supports abortion and socialism. To my knowledge she has not recanted her left wing passion. Ron Desantis took money from the left. For RD, check out Laura Loomer’s reporting on him. He wouldn’t really be the VP or POTUS, I think his wife would be. Check out Laura Loomer; you won’t like what you find out about RD.
Since that was Laura’s list; I’d be suspicious and vet each one deeply before deciding.
1 Sen. Tim Scott – Impressed most during debates
2 Gov. Ron DeSantis – his experience seems to say highly qualified
3 Gov. Kristi Noem – sensible, is her experience strong enough
4 Tulsi Gabbard – I admire her greatly, but a bit of a question as a president. she is a real patriot
5 Vivek Ramaswamy – good campaigner, but needs seasoning t serve as president
6 Florida Rep. Byron Donalds – an unknown to me.
Other considerations
Tim Scott – when he campaigns he speaks in a manner that speaks to black culture, but will it make a difference? Tim, born in ’65 is almost 60
Ron DeSantis – Trump damaged him a bit, but I think he would be popular with traditional Republican voters. How has he done with independents in the past. At 46 Ron is in his prime.
Kristi Noem, is she well enough known? Trump does not need her help in the Republican West, Can she or Tulsi pull more female votes?
Kristi is 53 and Tulsi is 43.
I would be uncomfortable with VIVEK, though he talks a great game. 4 years in the cabinet might prove him for the next round.
I am a Big Fan of Ben Carson, and if something happened to Trump I believe he would make the best president out of the group. Ben was born in 1951, so only he can tell us how fit he is for the campaign and serving if elected.
Ben Carson is a great man; but he is a passive conservative. He likes to reason instead of fight. I don’t think he is right fit for POTUS. The Trump ticket must have a fighter for VP to become POTUS and carry on fighting internal enemies.
Ben Carson is a great choice.
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