A.G. Gancarski
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick is imminent, and Marco Rubio is one of the “really good candidates” on the “very good bench,” he said Friday.
During an interview on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, Trump noted that “four or five” people are in the mix, and that “instinct” would drive the pick among the “fantastic” people in play.
“I watched Marco over the weekend on television. He’s incredible,” Trump said, while lauding Doug Burgum, J.D. Vance, and Tim Scott during the same segment.
Trump’s comments were much more generic than a previous interview, where he suggested there was a solid logistical reason not to pick his fellow Floridian: the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which blocks electors from voting for a President and Vice President from the same state, a rule that Trump says presents wrinkles.
“You do that and it makes it more complicated. There are other people that don’t have that complication,” Trump told Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio.
“Now, it’s fairly easily fixed, but you have to do something with delegates or there has to be a resignation, you know, et cetera, et cetera. So it’s not like picking some people where it’s very easy, where there is none of that.”
Trump noted on Kilmeade’s show that the 12th Amendment means that if his ticket wants Florida votes in the Electoral College, “two people (from the state) can’t be running on the same ticket.”
According to Polymarket, Vance is the odds on favorite, with yes shares priced at 38 cents. Rubio is in second place, but at 11 cents.
19 comments
Not Woke
July 13, 2024 at 8:05 am
So if Trump picks Marco and of course when the Dems come in with their attacks on Rubio, can we label the Dems as racist agains Hispanics? Karma.
Ocean Joe
July 13, 2024 at 9:33 am
Since most of the folks trying to cross the southern border are Hispanic and Republicans rant about them nonstop, by your logic Republicans are racist against Hispanics as well. Since Marco pretends to accept all of Trump’s verbal gobbledy-gook about who Mexico ‘sends’ then he’s racist against Hispanics as well.
Still not sure who you think will fix all the roofs in Florida if we have a bad storm season let alone build new in good times. Not familiar with any Norwegian roofers.
Michael K
July 13, 2024 at 11:38 am
Best not to engage with this troll – she has 20 different names, always off topic. Always whatabout.
Elvis Pitts "Ron DeSantis' Official "Unoffical Campaign Manager" American
July 13, 2024 at 11:40 am
Excellant “Head Fake” by Don,
We will reveal the Sage Reveal that Ron DeSantis is our VP pick on our own time.
Thanks Don and Thanks America,
EPA
Frankie M.
July 13, 2024 at 9:21 am
Marco is about as Hispanic as I am
Not Woke
July 13, 2024 at 9:31 am
He can check that box. Can you?
PeterH
July 13, 2024 at 10:02 am
It really doesn’t matter who Trump picks! …… Trump will never be president!
Not Woke
July 13, 2024 at 10:09 am
Well if you give the Dems drop off ballot boxes, allow people to vote without an ID, then you might be right.
PeterH
July 13, 2024 at 10:25 am
FUN FACT:
In the past election cycle here in Florida most of the illegal criminal voting occurred in the Republican stronghold commonly called THE VILLAGES! Republicans used other people’s identity to vote multiple times. DeSantis was embarrassed and silent.
Furthermore in the 2018 North Carolina mid-terms ballot harvesting BY REPUBLICANS was so pervasive that the governor was forced to have a new vote.
ADDITIONALLY, in the 2016 Presidential election Russian operatives paid for extensive campaign advertising on three swing states that enabled Trump to win the presidency by less than 10,000 votes spread over those three states. Trump ultimately lost the national popular vote in 2016.
In 2020 Trump attempted to use fake electors to change the outcome in a handful of swing states where he lost the popular vote.
Not Woke
July 13, 2024 at 10:31 am
Why is your party and US Attorney General against voter ID? Please tell us.
My Take
July 13, 2024 at 11:16 am
Trump the liar said he knew who it would be a month or so ago, and a week or so ago.
But it’s still up in the air?
It’s all for publicity.
Elvis Pitts "Ron DeSantis' Official "Unoffical Campaign Manager" American
July 13, 2024 at 11:43 am
Excellant “Head Fake” by Don,
We will reveal the Sage Reveal that Ron DeSantis is our VP pick on our own time.
Thanks Don and Thanks America,
EPA
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Marco checks the box for “Hispanics, white.” He won’t admit to any African blood but imagines himself the heir of the conquistadors.
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 1:06 pm
Photo ID is the law in Florida, period. Whether it is fair to the small percentage of Floridians who don’t have a form of governmental photo ID is a fair question, but MAGAs want to minimize turnout as much as possible because they = 37% of voters.
My Take
July 13, 2024 at 1:14 pm
The loathsome VD Vance still has a chance?
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Burgum is coming up on the inside, expanding recently on his MAGA bona fides, and may pass hillbilly disgrace Vance in the home stretch. Marco will show, as he must have known would be the case since the git-go.
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 1:37 pm
Since 2013 “… there has been a dramatic increase in legislative measures that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice.
“Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators.”
Merrick Garland at Selma, Alabama this spring
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 4:16 pm
“Nearly 29 million Americans did not have current driver’s licenses and 7.6 million did not have any nonexpired government-issued photo IDs in 2020, according to a University of Maryland report that used a representative sample from an American National Election Studies survey. Survey participants who identified as Black or Hispanic were twice as likely as other groups to lack photo IDs, and 18- to 29-year-olds in these demographics were the least likely to have driver’s licenses or any photo ID out of all other groups. ”
These are precisely the demographics that MAGAs want to keep out of the voting booth.
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 6:26 pm
Constitution gives each state the right to determine its voting rules and procedures. Seems like MAGAs would be okay with this as they cheer on the states restricting abortion access. Let the states rule, right?
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