Kristi Noem Would Be A Disaster As Donald Trump’s Veep

The Federalist ^ | 3/26/2024 | Tristan Justice

[JoSixChip]

Are you nuts?

If thinking your post is off topic gibberish is nuts, then yes.

[Eccl 10:2]

While I like DJTJ as a person, choosing him as VP would be a guaranteed loser, 100%.

[fishtank]

Yep. Adam was at least just as guilty as Eve…

[Organic Panic]

Call me old fashioned but I don’t want a woman in that position of power.

[Responsibility2nd]

And of course there wa Cory Lewandowski.

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There is as much credibility to Corey Lewandowski as Donald Trump to Stormy Daniels.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Good point.

[2nd Amendment]

I agree totally! I don’t know if he is black or not be he was the number one brain surgeon in the world

[38special]

Women won’t vote for her because she is too attractive.

[ronniesgal]

i hope so.

[cnsmom]

I’m counting on Trump making a terrible choice so who would be the worst and just prepare for that pick.

[AAABEST]

And of course there wa Cory Lewandowski.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention it.

That in particular voids any chance of me supporting her.

[Liz]

LOL......you forgot the “articulate” Kamala.

[coalminersson]

There are many misconceptions about the rules of a president choosing their running mate. There’s no law or regulation against a president and vice president of the United States being from the same state. The reason why some people mistakenly believe such a prohibition exists comes down to a particular aspect of the Electoral College system laid out in Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

Article II states: “The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.”
Under the original system, electors did not distinguish between candidates for the nation’s top two offices; the candidate with the most votes became president, while the runner-up became vice president.

The 12th Amendment, adopted in 1804 after two chaotic elections, mandated that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president. However, the rule preventing an elector from voting for two people from his home state remained in effect under the new system.

In most elections, this quirk in the system wouldn’t even matter. In 2008, Barack Obama could have chosen a running mate from his home state of Illinois in either 2008 or 2012 with no adverse effect; the same goes for Ronald Reagan in 1980 or ’84, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992 or ‘96.

But if an election turns out to be particularly close, the rule could potentially come into play. It almost did in the notoriously contentious election of 2000. When Texas Gov. George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney as his running mate on the Republican ticket, Cheney had been living and voting and paying taxes for five years in Texas. Shortly before the election, however, Cheney obtained a Wyoming driver’s license and put his Dallas home on the market. (He had a vacation home in Wyoming, which is the state he had formerly represented in the U.S. Congress.)

Good thing for him he did: The Bush-Cheney ticket ended up winning with 271 electoral votes—just a slim five-vote margin—over Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, a total they certainly wouldn’t have hit without Texas’ 32 votes.

[DMD13]

Tulsi Gabbard is my favorite but would love Elise Stefanik as well.

[spankalib]

...annnnd yanking this thread thoroughly off topic,

I bet some, maybe even most of yous guys know that

Eve was deceived and Adam was not.

Adam made a choice.

I think it made our 'punishments' a bit different.

I'm like the other poster that said I'm voting for Trump no matter who his VP pick is (well, you know what I mean)...

[Paladin2]

Carbon capture pipelines seem quite problematic for me.

Anybody who is for them is a no vote from me.

[Alberta's Child]

Noem’s track record as governor, however, showcases a state executive more eager to capitulate to corporate constituents at the Chamber of Commerce and capitalize on the glamour of political stardom than governing on behalf of Republican voters.

The author is naive. VP candidates are selected by the party leadership, so they are “establishment” types by definition. This is going to be particularly true in a race where the candidate at the top of the ticket is an iconic outsider like Trump.

With all that in mind, Kristi Noem might be the perfect running mate for Trump. I’ve been saying this for more than two years.

[Brilliant]

She won’t be selected. It’s costless to put her on his short list and it helps to bring the party together.

[Alberta's Child]

Sometime around 2004, Hispanics surpassed blacks as the largest minority group in the U.S.

Black voters consistently vote for Democrats by enormous margins on a national level. Their subservience to Democratic plantation masters is so pathetic that in Senate, House and state races they vote for white Democrats over black Republicans by wide margins.

Anyone who thinks it’s a good idea for a Republican presidential candidate to pander to black voters is politically tone-deaf and ignorant.

[MotorCityBuck]

She has a lot in common with Trump. Neither is liked by their own “Party” ;) That gets my Vote.