Who will Trump choose for his VP? Who should he?

[YellowSnow51]

This will be one of the more interesting things of the election for me. He has to find someone with low enough esteem and the ability to swallow enough pride to play second fiddle to someone that he or she is obvioulsy more qualified than. It will almost be the same as if Palin was at the top of the ticket and McCain were the VP, pretty much whoever he chooses...unless it is Palin.

Who will it be? Who should it be?

If he's smart he should pick someone like Petraeus. That lets him defer all foreign policy to him while not getting outshined by him on domestic issues. I think, looking back, that's what Reagan did with Big George.

I think he should definitely go military or FP agency type.

 

[Huey Grey]

Oprah.

 

[lucas80]

I tried this thread a month ago, and got few serious responses. It is a very difficult questions for the reasons Yellow mentioned. Trump does not want anyone but him in the spotlight, and he seems to be an odious person to work with. A serious person may view being Trump's VP as the end of their political career, so Yellow may indeed be right in picking a military person. It lets him parade around a vet to say he'll take care of the vets, and it'll be a way of saying he'd be tough on ISIS. Any competent person fresh out of the military would know that ISIS is defeated when Syria, Iraq, and Libya stop having so much civil strife and so many other nations trying to influence events inside their borders. However, is a recently retired general or admiral qualified to take over anything besides the military if Trump has a massive coronary?

 

[lucas80]

I am not linking it, but if you want to you can find a list of 20 candidates on the internet put up by the Fiscal Times. There were other lists by others, but this seemed mostly serious. Cruz, Rubio, Graham… There were a few unrealistic people, but I thought there were some legitimate people, and some very interesting ones. Here are the highlights.
Scott Brown. Publicly mentioned by Trump already as a potential VP. His big drawback is he is pro choice.
Carly Fiorina. Probably too much business, and they don't get along at all.
Kelly Ayotte. Popular on the right and she is mentioned as a VP for a lot of candidates. She would probably appeal to a lot of moderate women.
John Kasich. Definitely meets the VP qualification of being someone who could take over, which still is the #1 job of a VP.
Tim Scott. Basically the anti-Obama. I don't think he's very well known outside of South Carolina.
Ben Carson.
Rudy Giuliani.
Condoleeza Rice. She would again appeal to the moderate female voters, but after Trump savaged her former boss I don't think she'd take the job.
Marsha Blackburn. For those of you who don't know she's a member of Congress from Tennessee. The only reason I know that is because she is on MSNBC a lot. Socially she is probably too far to the right for Trump to control.
Martha McSally. An unknown to me, but she is a former A-10 pilot and now a member of Congress from Arizona. She'd appeal to a lot of demographics, but the name recognition is clearly low. And, the question would be there about what happens if Trump has a stroke?
And, finally, Joni Ernst made the list. She was noted for military experience, appealing to some women, and very appealing to evangelicals. Trump would need some help driving the evangelicals to the polls.

 

[Hawked]

2pac

 

[anon_snp6dc585nnj4]

Palin

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Dr. Ben Carson

 

[Funky Bunch]

Michael Buffer

 

[lucas80]

Palin

She was on the list, but she would have a lot of problems playing second fiddle. She went rogue a lot in 2008. She also has super high negatives among every group except the far right of the Republican Party.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Sonja Henie is out ...

 

[The Tradition]

He could go full-out "reality show" and go with Caitlyn Jenner.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/18/c...lack-for-being-conservative-than-transgender/

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Kirsten Gillibrand

 

[lucas80]

Kirsten Gillibrand

Look for her to be high up on the list of potential Democratic VP's.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Look for her to be high up on the list of potential Democratic VP's.

She's actually been mentioned in articles for a possible supreme court nominee

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

All jokes aside, I think Kasich would be a good VP option even though I think he is fairly liberal. However, with as ugly as things have gone in this years primaries/caucuses I don't see candidates picking another candidate.

 

[The Tradition]

All jokes aside, I think Kasich would be a good VP option even though I think he is fairly liberal. However, with as ugly as things have gone in this years primaries/caucuses I don't see candidates picking another candidate.

Everybody manages to kiss and make up in the summer.

 

[lucas80]

She's actually been mentioned in articles for a possible supreme court nominee

Well, that would be a gut check for several Republicans. She is well liked and makes a conscientious effort to find common ground with Republicans.

 

[preshlock]

Kasich would be a good VP candidate. Would help with Ohio too.

 

[soybean]

Trump is smart to say nothing about this until the convention.

 

[YellowSnow51]

All jokes aside, I think Kasich would be a good VP option even though I think he is fairly liberal. However, with as ugly as things have gone in this years primaries/caucuses I don't see candidates picking another candidate.

Just because he's not a full blown nutbag doesn't mean he's not a conservative. How exactly is he a liberal?

Like Jeb said, Reagan would be ran out of today's GOP as a left wing Hollywood loon.

 

[lucas80]

Kasich would be a good VP candidate. Would help with Ohio too.

That is a double win for Trump, and standard VP thinking. Choose someone who brings you one state, and pick someone who can step in if needed. Would he play second fiddle to Trump, though?

 

[moral_victory]

Liberal extremist John Huntsman.

 

[preshlock]

That is a double win for Trump, and standard VP thinking. Choose someone who brings you one state, and pick someone who can step in if needed. Would he play second fiddle to Trump, though?

Of course Republicans don't win Presidential races without Ohio. Aside from that Kasich is a pretty safe pick. He is competent, can debate well, and doesn't seem to be ego driven. Which will be big if he works with Trump.

 

[TexMichFan]

Better question is not who it will be but who would be silly enough to say yes.

 

[SCHawkFan]

He will never get the opportunity to choose one. No way he is the nominee.

 

[TankHawk]

Megyn Kelly?

 

[naturalmwa]

He could go full-out "reality show" and go with Caitlyn Jenner.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/18/c...lack-for-being-conservative-than-transgender/

You may have a crush as often as you reference her.

 

[Herkmeister]

Easy answer!!!!!!

• Who would be the cherry on top of this bat crazy election?

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

All jokes aside, I think Kasich would be a good VP option even though I think he is fairly liberal. However, with as ugly as things have gone in this years primaries/caucuses I don't see candidates picking another candidate.

The problem with Trump picking a VP candidate is that

1. He's insulted nearly everyone in the establishment GOP which is his weakness. . . Where a normal candidate would look for a VP candidate. He's gotten way too ugly to turn around and pick them for a VP Candidate.

2. Even if you do win you can't think that Trump's ego is going to allow you much power. So you will be a VP who sits at the naval observatory and flies out for some funerals and that's about it.

3. You most likely lose.

Why would you want to run as Trump's VP?

I think Trump is gonna have to go with Palin or Coulter or someone on his side here. Because if you havn't been on his side he's been so insulting anyways that running you as VP is going to make him look ridiculous.

I mean this hasn't been the ordinary run of the mill we have different ideas but the same goals type of disagreements you often see in primaries. He's been personally insulting on a whole new level and after all that it would look ridiculous for him to try and run one of those guys as his VP.

 

[whatsup13579er]

From the get go I have thought that Kasich was basically running for the VP nod. I really like him as a candidate but don't think he can come close to getting the nomination. I really don't follow politics much but from what I hear he is well liked in his home state of Ohio. When this whole thing started I thought a Rubio/Kasich ticket could have a real shot at winning the White House.

 

[hawkifann]

Early on, I thought to be a serious player, he'd have to get someone established with some lengthy resume and experience. The longer he stays on the path he's on, though, I really don't think he'll get anyone from "the establishment" to run with him -- in part because he's his own walking reality show and in part because he's just trashing everyone along the way. I could see him picking someone like Huckabee who really doesn't have a future as a legit national candidate.

Or, he could just go full-on freak show and pick Omarosa or Ivanka.

 

[ICWestfan]

I tried this thread a month ago, and got few serious responses. It is a very difficult questions for the reasons Yellow mentioned. Trump does not want anyone but him in the spotlight, and he seems to be an odious person to work with. A serious person may view being Trump's VP as the end of their political career, so Yellow may indeed be right in picking a military person. It lets him parade around a vet to say he'll take care of the vets, and it'll be a way of saying he'd be tough on ISIS. Any competent person fresh out of the military would know that ISIS is defeated when Syria, Iraq, and Libya stop having so much civil strife and so many other nations trying to influence events inside their borders. However, is a recently retired general or admiral qualified to take over anything besides the military if Trump has a massive coronary?

I think someone asked this question at the Town Hall in SC the other night (I was surfing and caught a bit) because Trump was talking about Petraous (sp) and how that ship had sailed but he needed to be left alone.

Kasich most likely will be the VP candidate for whomever comes out of the race.

 

[hawksrule965]

That is a double win for Trump, and standard VP thinking. Choose someone who brings you one state, and pick someone who can step in if needed. Would he play second fiddle to Trump, though?

This is such tortured logic that I've never understood. People vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. No voter in Ohio is going to vote for Donald freaking Trump just because their idiot governor is in the #2 slot.

The Vice Presidency of the United States it he most irrelevant position every created in the history of mankind.

 

[hawksrule965]

He will never get the opportunity to choose one. No way he is the nominee.

He is the overwhelming frontrunner at this point, according to just about everyone. By one month from today, approximately 60% of the delegates will have been decided, with Trump having sizable leads in the vast majority of those states.

 

[whatsup13579er]

This is such tortured logic that I've never understood. People vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. No voter in Ohio is going to vote for Donald freaking Trump just because their idiot governor is in the #2 slot.

The Vice Presidency of the United States it he most irrelevant position every created in the history of mankind.

I disagree with this a lot. I know a lot of women who didn't vote for McCain/Palin ticket just because they didn't like how Palin represented women.

 

[hawksrule965]

Isn't Patreaous (sp) a convicted felon?

Not sure how well that would go over with the electorate.

He wouldn't even be eligible to vote for himself, LOL.

 

[hawksrule965]

I disagree with this a lot. I know a lot of women who didn't vote for McCain/Palin ticket just because they didn't like how Palin represented women.

Didn't Obama destroy McCain head-to-head among women? You are telling me specifically that there were females who were planning to vote for McCain, but chose not to simply because of his vice presidential choice?

I call heaping amounts of bullshit.

 

[lucas80]

This is such tortured logic that I've never understood. People vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. No voter in Ohio is going to vote for Donald freaking Trump just because their idiot governor is in the #2 slot.

The Vice Presidency of the United States it he most irrelevant position every created in the history of mankind.

Do you know that eight presidents have died in office? VP is hardly an irrelevant position.

 

[hawksrule965]

Do you know that eight presidents have died in office? VP is hardly an irrelevant position.

The most recent being 52 years ago. How many of the died-in-office contingent happened before the discovery of penicillin?

It's not exactly a common occurrence. In the last 100 years, off the top of my head, I think it's only happened twice (Harding and JFK). Oops, 3 times. Forgot FDR.

That would mean in the lifetime of any poster on this board, the vote for vice president has had significance exactly one time, ever. And even that guy would have only had a little over 1 year to be a screw-up had voters not elected him in his own right. Doesn't seem like something to which a lot of time and resources should be devoted to thinking about.

 

[whatsup13579er]

Didn't Obama destroy McCain head-to-head among women? You are telling me specifically that there were females who were planning to vote for McCain, but chose not to simply because of his vice presidential choice?

I call heaping amounts of bullshit.

That is exactly what I am telling you. They were generally center-right politically and didn't get caught up in the Obama hoopla. They were McCain supporters until he decided to really ramp up Palin's role and that was the tipping point where they wouldn't vote for that ticket.

Have you ever seen a VP get more play that Palin? I voted Romney in the last election and I can't recall his running mate but I can still remember that Palin was VP in 2008.