Posted on 12/22/2023 8:50:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Rumor has it that former President Donald Trump is considering selecting former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as his running mate. The primaries are far from over, but the former president still enjoys a commanding lead over the rest of the Republican field, and his likely nomination has prompted many to speculate about whom he might choose to join him on the ticket for 2024.
According to a CBS News report, some in Trump’s orbit have suggested that he has been soliciting advice on possibly picking Haley as his running mate.
Former President Donald Trump has been asking allies and advisers for their thoughts about Nikki Haley as a potential vice presidential candidate, two sources familiar with the conversations tell CBS News.
The feedback from the MAGA crowd regarding putting Haley on the ticket if Trump wins the GOP nomination has been overwhelmingly negative, according to these GOP sources. Politico first reported that Trump allies are working to quash the possibility of a Trump-Haley ticket.
The former South Carolina governor has been gaining ground in recent polls, and a top Trump adviser tells CBS News one internal prediction is Haley might be a close third in Iowa to DeSantis, or that she could even come in second.
As the report suggests, folks in MAGA world are not too happy about the prospect of Haley joining the ticket. Some have made their feelings known on X, formerly known as Twitter.
If Trump chooses Haley, it will be widely heralded as the perfection of 44-D chess. TRUMP OWNED THE ESTABLISHMENT, they’ll say, because they need him now, not the other way around!
I’m already about to vomit even thinking what we know will be said. https://t.co/huVC24YzaJ— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 23, 2023
Get this warmonger away from my ticket https://t.co/aEeJM7AuE4— Patriot J 🔥 (@PatriotJ) December 23, 2023
Absolutely not. No. Not under any circumstances should this happen. https://t.co/sc8xfTP7Cr— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 23, 2023
If Trump were to select Haley, it might not please his base, but it could potentially help him reach moderates and independents. She could help the ticket appeal to women and suburban voters, a demographic with which the former president has underperformed. Even further, Haley could give Trump an edge over Biden in swing states, according to the findings of a poll released earlier in December.
POLITICO examined four recent surveys from major pollsters that included multiple general-election matchups. The Fox News, CNN/SSRS and Marquette polls all showed Haley running stronger against Biden than Trump.
To understand why Haley outperforms Trump against Biden, we looked at what we’ll call Biden-Haley voters: People who would vote for Biden in a 2020 rematch with Trump, but switch to Haley when she’s the hypothetical GOP nominee instead. Roughly 43 percent of the electorate would vote for Biden in either matchup, according to Marquette’s polling, and 47 percent for Trump or Haley but not Biden.
On the other hand, the base cannot be discounted. These are the people who have been most gung-ho about getting Trump back in office to finish what he started in 2016. To these folks, Haley still represents the establishment. Her hawkish foreign policy stances don’t exactly endear her to the MAGA base either. This could become an albatross around Trump’s neck.
The former president will still need to maintain his support with the base in 2024, and having Haley on the ticket might pose a challenge in this regard. Moreover, the move could turn off the more populist types, who are virulently antiwar.
Of course, Trump has not made a decision yet as the primaries are still in full swing. Nevertheless, this development has already piqued the interest of the chattering class and will continue to fuel speculation going into 2024.
If so, I’m out. I’m so out I won’t vote for Trump even in the general election. He would immediately become anathema to me.
More smoke and mirrors, gaslighting and lies from golden eagle....
Trump had said he doesn’t think it’s likely...
And lake never says anything about a vp position.
So more lies from the desantis supporting nevertrumpers
And anyone that reads golden eagl’s stuff, ask yourself, why should someone like golden eagle have any credibility, when he post things that are suppose to make you believe Trump is considering haley for v.p.
When it is obvious Trump doesn’t think so, and the second post is from the desantis warroom, that lies by saying Lake says Trump could pick haley for vp when Lake never says anything about the vp position.
We’re at least a full week into this and not a single denial from anyone including Trump himself. She and Trump appear to have worked a deal with Pharmaphony to take the only true conservative - DeSantis - out of the race, since he is the only one that any of them ever attack. The Trump campaign strategy since day one has been to run to the left, and no VP candidate fits that agenda better than Haley of all the other people running. He’’s taking the voters on the right for granted, whether they like it or not.
I just posted videos of Trump, Kari Lake, and Jason Miller being asked about it, and not one of them denied it. So I am not the one being misleading here, you are, as usual.
Just admit you are so swoon over Trump it doesn’t really matter who he picks, we all know that’s the truth.
And so what if she worked in his administration. So did Pence but he won't be asked back to the dance. He'll be sitting it out with Nikki.
Didn’t President Trump say he won’t hire anyone currently running for president?
I truly really DO NOT WANT haley.
No.
I suspect this is true.
And leaked as a trial balloon, to tempt Haley into going light on him, to ease the idea onto his base, by an alarmed aide, because he’s desperate to name a woman, and/or because he’s been Mossad/globalist controlled oppo all along—however much his base wants to deny it.
Okay, quite simply...
Yes, or no, did Trump say “I don’t think it’s likely”
Yes or no, Lake NOT say anything about Trump considering haley for VP.
Yes or no, miller says Trump would keep everyone guessing.
Because, clearly you are avoiding they fact you are deceiving and gaslighting people here.
If she wasn’t so anti gun and 2A, Tulsi Gabbard would be a good choice.
She checks off all the boxes woman, POC, Serving officer in the Military that knows what war is like, makes sense when she talks, and has figured out that today’s Democrats need to GO!
However just like every other officer she is scared shitless of the common people having guns.
Please no. Get a VP who won’t stab you in the back.
Scalley will refuse Trump if he even asks.
If he picks her, I may decide not to vote. Not sure it will do any good with a Pence with t1ts.
I will vote for President Trump regardless but in my view if you choose a woman do so because you really think she’s loyal and capable not because you think it will help you win because it won’t. The enemy will lampoon any woman Republican as an airhead or a bimbo and the media will clap for it like retarded seals and the squishy middle voter will be scared back onto the enemy’s plantation. Besides that people always choose based on the main course not the side dish.
How many times will FReepers post this same annoying rumor from anonymous sources close to President Trump?
He’s not going to pick a woman he calls “bird-brain”
There are plenty of other women much more loyal and qualified than this creep.
Staying home because his #2 person is Haley? So you get a democrat instead. That makes a lot of sense… not.
Whoever he picks will have the inside track for 2028.
“If so, I’m out. I’m so out I won’t vote for Trump even in the general election. He would immediately become anathema to me.”
Same with us. And Trump’s campaign needs to be told that this choice would seal his fate.
“Staying home because his #2 person is Haley? So you get a democrat instead.”
Haley “is” a democrat.
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