Who is going to be Donald Trump’s 2024 pick for vice president, a role that involves literally putting one’s life on the line and being called a pussy for not breaking the law? Currently, no one, including Trump, seems to know the answer. But the ex-president has confirmed a few names that are under consideration.
Speaking at a town hall with Fox News on Tuesday, Trump confirmed to host Laura Ingraham that Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Byron Donalds, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kristi Noem are all on his short list for the gig.
“Honestly, all of those people are good,” Trump said. “They’re all good; they’re all solid.” Speaking specifically about South Carolina lawmaker Scott, who was in attendance at the event and has made his feelings about Trump very clear, the ex-president told Ingraham, “He’s been such a great advocate. I have to say this in a very positive way: Tim Scott, he has been much better for me than he was for himself.” (At a victory party in New Hampshire last month, Scott told Trump, “I just love you.”) Trump has had less nice things to say about former primary opponent DeSantis—including calling him “Meatball Ron” and threatening to reveal unflattering things about him—but the fact that DeSantis endorsed Trump after ending his own bid for the White House has likely earned him some points with the guy who puts unblinking loyalty above all else.
A few names—particularly that of GOP representative Elise Stefanik—went conspicuously unmentioned last night, but that does not mean they are out of the running. NBC News reported last month that Stefanik was “at the top” of Trump’s VP short list. The fact that she recently suggested she would have broken the law for him on January 6 has got to go far in his mind.
Ohio senator J.D. Vance is also reportedly under consideration; like Stefanik, he has effectively said he would’ve been up for a coup in January 2021.
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