Posted on 06/30/2023 5:09:25 PM PDT by conservative98
The “Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” hosts may be a little early to the Donald Trump 2024 Veepstakes party, but when they stumbled upon the topic during a freeform chat Friday, it dawned on the conservative talk radio duo that the choice of Mike Pence in 2016 pales in comparison to what’s ahead for Trump.
“I think Trump’s vice presidential selection is probably the most significant decision he’s going to make, because we know Mike Pence was basically — for Trump, a non-factor,” cohost Travis said. “Right? In terms of, I don’t think he had any impact on how people saw, to a large extent, Trump’s candidacy.”
Sexton, cohost of the conservative talk radio show that’s the heir apparent to Rush Limbaugh, took it a step further, suggesting that Trump’s choice stands to become “the anointed future leader of the GOP.”
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The hosts then began to toss around possible candidates, with Travis asking Sexton if there was a person who could actually sway voters to the Republican frontrunner.
“The smartest electoral strategy thing Trump can do to defeat Biden would be to have somebody from — whether it’s in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan — somebody who could deliver one of those key states as VP. I think that would make sense.”
Both noted that Brian Kemp would be an excellent choice in that vein — if Trump hadn’t picked a fight with the Georgia governor around the 2020 election.
“I think Brian Kemp is a no-brainer VP selection, I just do,” Travis said. “Brian Kemp has a great organization and he is wildly popular. You take Georgia off the board. If you take Brian Kemp, I’m not sure that there’s anybody else out there.”
They also suggested Kari Lake would be an obvious choice — had she actually won the governorship of Arizona, and one fella who actually won his election: “Is it Glenn Youngkin?,” Sexton said. “I don’t know. I mean, Trump’s been attacking him. They don’t have a relationship. It doesn’t seem that’s very strong, and I’m not sure Youngkin could put Virginia in play.”
And that’s where Travis made up his mind about who his pick was — at least as of Friday:
“My top two right now in terms of who I think Trump’s going to pick: Tim Scott and RFK Jr.,” he said. “I still think RFK Jr. is on the horizon for Trump. I still think he would do it.”
No offense Clay, but I can see your old twice voting Obama self shining through.
I can’t believe they were even discussing that Freak Kari Lake as even a remote VP candidate...
Clay Travis promotes degeneracy through his (seemingly) non stop endorsement of gambling.
Plus he gets his rocks off on men with fake breasts who expose them at the White House.
I go with Ron Johnson or Kari Lake.
Rand Paul. He pushes the right buttons. Young folk will listen.
RFK Jr.? Give me a break. As bad an idea as John McCain wanting to have Joe Lieberman as his running mate. RFK Jr. isn’t as bad as the other Democrat politicians but he is still wrong on 90% of the issues if not more.
Vivek Ramaswammy or Rand Paul
I think Trump-RFK might well be the paradigm-shifting combination that gets Trump a second term. If he can’t win, it doesn’t matter who the VP is or how conservative he/she is.
What a MORON!!! VIVEK is the MAN!!
Kemp is an unequivocal moron, sellout and RINO.
For these two clowns to bring his name up renders anything they say, not worthy of further discussion.
Probably Romney.
“I think Trump-RFK might well be the paradigm-shifting combination that gets Trump a second term. If he can’t win, it doesn’t matter who the VP is or how conservative he/she is.”
Agree 100%.
Next choice is Marsha Blackburn of TN.
If he picks RFK it will say a lot.
And he’s still a Democrat.
Yes, it has to be someone 100% COVID vaccine and lockdown. Maybe Fauci.
Ric Grenell.
I am not endorsing a RFK pick, but if Trump were to pick him the heads of the Republican establishment would explode. They would be completely shut out of the ticket.
Yeah, that’s about right.
The only GOP candidates that I have any respect are DeSantis, Trump and Ramaswamy. I don’t think Trump and DeSantis can patch things up, but stranger things have been known to happen. As for Ramaswamy, he doesn’t bring in a state, but he may bring in a demographic - young voters. Biden is polling terrible with young voters. That might have an impact. One other thought, KamelToe didn’t help Biden in 2020. Maybe a VP choice won’t make a difference for Trump regardless of who it is.
Didn’t Kennedy Jr. say he would sign a semiautomatic weapons (I refuse to call them assault weapons) ban if it reached his desk?
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