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Trump hints at VP pick during Fox News town hall
The Hill ^ | 01/10/24 10:43 PM ET | BY BRETT SAMUELS

Posted on 01/10/2024 7:49:27 PM PST by Red Badger

Former President Trump on Wednesday suggested he knows who’s in the running as his vice presidential pick should he win the GOP nomination.

Trump attended a Fox News town hall in Iowa, where anchor Martha MacCallum asked who would be in contention to join him on the Republican ticket.

“Well I can’t tell you that really. I mean, I know who it’s going to be,” Trump said.

Asked if he’d be willing to consider any of the people who ran against him in the primary, Trump indicated he would.

“I’ve already started to like Christie better,” Trump quipped, a reference to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) dropping out of the primary race earlier in the day and criticizing fellow candidate Nikki Haley in the process.

NBC News reported that a Trump campaign adviser clarified that nothing is finalized in terms of a vice presidential pick.

Trump is the dominant frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, maintaining a comfortable lead in national and state-level polling dating back to when he announced his candidacy in November 2022.

Polling averages from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ show Trump leading his GOP rivals by 53 percentage points in national surveys, by 36 points in Iowa and by 11 points in New Hampshire.

Trump has largely been mum about who he might choose as a running mate, though he has named South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) as an option he’d consider. The former president is not expected to pick his previous running mate and vice president, Mike Pence, for another campaign.

Trump allies have pushed for a female running mate, with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) and Haley among others mentioned.


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To: bankwalker

The Party that sits with their thumb up their *ss?

NOT THIS TIME!


21 posted on 01/10/2024 8:07:19 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: pgyanke

I doubt it. Sarah Palin was not the GOPe pick in any way or form back in 08. But then again, after that was Ryan and Pence!

I do hope Trump doesn’t take any House Republicans unless they’re in the safest of districts. Also, the more conservative they are the better for us they stay in the House and fight the Uniparty.


22 posted on 01/10/2024 8:10:03 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: libh8er
if he picks Haley he loses my vote ... and probably millions of others ...

she's the only person on earth that can turn the south blue ...
23 posted on 01/10/2024 8:10:08 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: libh8er

HARDLY!

You’re living on 2020 fumes.

100% MAGA!

Nothing else is acceptable.


24 posted on 01/10/2024 8:10:47 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: OL Hickory

they don’t get much further left than kennedy ...


25 posted on 01/10/2024 8:10:58 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: edie1960

“Asked if he’d be willing to consider any of the people who ran against him in the primary, Trump indicated he would.“

Trump is just not the viscous vindictive guy he is portrayed to be. When he says things like this l wonder why he draws such hatred for him.


26 posted on 01/10/2024 8:12:26 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: bigdaddy45

MTG would be amazingly crazy!
A lot of “don’t miss” TV.


27 posted on 01/10/2024 8:12:32 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Red Badger

Vivek Ramaswamy should be the VP.


28 posted on 01/10/2024 8:15:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: chickenlips

Fauci?
You meant RUINING a country, right?


29 posted on 01/10/2024 8:16:35 PM PST by RWGinger (It isn)
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To: Red Badger

“I’ve already started to like Christie better,”

Trolling, Trolling, Trolling
The GOP is Folding
Keep them MAGA rolling
Landslide!


30 posted on 01/10/2024 8:18:00 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: chickenlips

Maybe of ruining not running.


31 posted on 01/10/2024 8:19:19 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: RWGinger

You win by 3 minutes.


32 posted on 01/10/2024 8:22:21 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: bigdaddy45

MTG and Boebert were great at first and now both are dumpster fires


33 posted on 01/10/2024 8:22:24 PM PST by SACK UP
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To: Red Badger

Me.

We’ve been talking.


34 posted on 01/10/2024 8:24:32 PM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Vivek would be better as Press Secretary. He chews up reporters and spits them out. Totally smart with zero bullschtein.


35 posted on 01/10/2024 8:26:36 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: bankwalker
I’ve read that the party chooses the running mate, not the potus candidate. Do you know if that’s true?

It is not true. The presidential candidate chooses his running mate. The presidential candidate undoubtedly seeks advice from people in his inner circle, but ultimately he makes the decision.

36 posted on 01/10/2024 8:30:33 PM PST by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Red Badger

He learned his lesson. It won’t be no Washington insider like Pence.


37 posted on 01/10/2024 8:32:49 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: bankwalker

van drew, the former rat?

>>>Precisely—and because he represents critical crossover appeal to former “rats” or more appropriately rational democrats like me who’d be crucial in swinging either NJ or NY to Trump’s EV column.

Trump actually welcomed him into the Oval Office shortly after he became a republican.


38 posted on 01/10/2024 8:36:02 PM PST by edie1960 (7)
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To: edie1960
I hate to say it, but I think it’s looking like Haley.

Picking her as his UN ambassador says there’s a relationship there..

That she’s now running second in the polls, coupled with both only leveling lukewarm criticisms at one another points to a potentially strong ticket.

Not my first choice, but winning is the priority.

39 posted on 01/10/2024 8:38:30 PM PST by daler
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To: Veto!
Vivek would be better as Press Secretary.

Stephen Miller can be the Press Secretary. You need someone high profile like Vivek as the VP who knows how to "handle" the media

40 posted on 01/10/2024 8:39:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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