Who will it be? (Vice-President nominee)

[Albion]

Apparently, the person chosen by Donald Trump will at last be revealed this week. Who do you think he will choose, after all the speculation that's been offered by the media during the past several weeks?

Just a name please. It doesn't matter if you favor that person, the Republican ticket, think it's a good or lame choice, or just don't care one way or the other? Your "vote" here is still good.

 

[Albion]

Hmmmm.

 

[Lamb]

I honestly have NO idea. I mean, I keep seeing the teasings about it on the news sites, and then I think, well, that doesn't fit the guy/lady I have in mind. So I keep changing my mind. Maybe it's not even someone that is in the list??? How does one go about choosing a VP anyway?

 

[Lees]

Apparently, the person chosen by Donald Trump will at last be revealed this week. Who do you think he will choose, after all the speculation that's been offered by the media during the past several weeks?

Just a name please. It doesn't matter if you favor that person, the Republican ticket, think it's a good or lame choice, or just don't care one way or the other? Your "vote" here is still good.

I care 'one way or the other'. But, does it matter?

My answer is 'no it does not matter'. As I have said, the liberal left, democrats, are not going to let a conservative in as president. They have showed they will go to any means to stop it. And...they will.

In other words, your question about the choice of the vice-president pertains to America the way it used to be. Not the way it is. Americans need to wake up.

Quit pretending our country is representative of the way it used to be. It is not.

Lees

 

[tango]

How does one go about choosing a VP anyway?

That's easy. You blather a lot about racial and gender equality and then insist the VP must be a black woman because, well, reasons I guess.

It would be kinda fun if Trump nominated a black lesbian, or a black transgender woman, even if only to see the woke brigade's heads explode as they realised the nasty Republicans had more minority points on their ticket than the Democrats did.

 

[Albion]

Thanks, folks, for replying to my message. It didn't seem to cause much of a ripple with the membership overall, even though the media has talked this subject to death lately.

But I should restate one thing about it. I don't have any idea myself who the
"lucky winner" will be, and I was just asking for guesses about that--a name--not because that person is your own preference or that you even care much. I just thought we here could join in the name game with a prediction.

 

[Lanman87]

Tim Scott and Marco Rubio are the two names I've heard. However, Trump is so unpredictable it could be the Mayor of a small town in Ohio or somebody he plays golf with or a professional athlete.

Conventional Wisdom says

• Get someone safe/uncontroversial (unless you are way behind then get someone who will make a splash)
• Get someone from a swing state
• Get someone who is decent on the campaign trail
• Get someone who is good at being the "pitbull" attacking your opponent so the Presidential candidate can stay above the fray (Trump loves being the "pitbull" so that doesn't apply here)
• Get someone who would make a good president, which sadly, is probably the lowest priority most of the time.

 

[tango]

Being a bit more serious than my previous comment, I think another key attribute is an appeal to a voter demographic that the presidential candidate may lack.

I remember at least some of the response when John McCain appointed Sarah Palin as his VP candidate - the party faithful cheered but they're the ones who would have voted for a turnip if it had a red rosette on it. Sarah Palin had little appeal to the moderates, the floaters, the moderate Democrats who didn't care for the Obama/Biden ticket etc. I know a guy (woah, a sample size of a whopping ONE, I know, I know.....) who almost always votes Democrat but would have voted for McCain over Obama - as soon as Palin went on the ticket he decided to vote Obama.

 

[Lamb]

I found this list of 19 prospects;

Trump's VP options: Sizing up their pros and cons from J.D. Vance to Kari Lake

Here's a look at 19 of Trump's vice presidential prospects – and the pros and cons for each one as Republicans try to reclaim the White House.

www.usatoday.com

I tried going through the list to choose one I'd like to see, but it's difficult. The person has to be likable. The person has to be different from Trump to appeal to people who normally won't vote for Trump, but are sick of the Biden way of doing things that is messing up our country. The person is someone who we would want to see as President if something happened to Trump. Who is strong? Who is good with the leaders of other countries? Who has the Republican values?

 

[Albion]

Conventional Wisdom says

• Get someone safe/uncontroversial (unless you are way behind then get someone who will make a splash)

So, Tim Scott or Ben Carson

• Get someone from a swing state

Maybe Marco Rubio or Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but definitely not Burgum or J.D. Vance

• Get someone who is decent on the campaign trail

Rubio, Vance, or Byron Donalds

• Get someone who is good at being the "pitbull" attacking your opponent so the Presidential candidate can stay above the fray

That would be Ramaswamy, but he's not thought to be on the short list of possible VPs

• Get someone who would make a good president, which sadly, is probably the lowest priority most of the time.

Rubio

 

[NewCreation435]

Rubio or Scott