People read too much in who's going to be the potential VP nominee.
Trump needs to find somebody who's loyal and not a total moron. That's it.
He needed Pence in 2016 to solidify his relationship with the Christian Conservatives.
So who does Trump need this year? Conservatives or a moderate? I observed elsewhere that I think he’ll pick Tulsi Gabbard, a moderate, a woman, a minority, and a veteran. Okay, I’m skipping the obvious deficiency that she is not a natural born citizen, not a conservative, not a republican, but she probably aligns closer with Trump overall than most other potential VP candidates.
I agree.
His number one criteria should be absolute loyalty to him.
However, there should be a co-equal criteria, and should be their ability to take over should something happen to him.
Normally, and never before would I have suggested personal loyalty as a high criteria. That sounds too much like building a “cult of personality” like building a Praetorian Guard. But these are not normal times.
I don’t have any confidence that any VP choice that will be acceptable to The Deep State will be able to have any loyalty towards Trump. Period. As I said, these are not normal times. Anyone the Deep State would approve of will be hostile to conservatives, conservative values, and Trump himself.
Trump needs someone who he can talk straight to and confide in. I expect, if he is re-elected, this will be an important criteria in any case. He needs someone trustworthy he can bounce things off with full expectation of confidentiality, and I think there are people who he can consider who would have the good of the country co-equal in their minds.
The alternative is to hire someone who is untrustworthy who is oriented towards the Deep State.
Most logical post in this thread!