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Title: Scott Brown Declines to Rule Out Serving as Trump’s VP (A great honor)
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The Blaze
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201 ... serving-as-trumps-vp%E2%80%AC/
Published: Jan 24, 2016
Author: Kate Scanlon
Post Date: 2016-01-24 11:30:37 by Hondo68
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Views: 17786
Comments: 79
NASHUA, N.H. – Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) declined to rule out running for vice president with Donald Trump at the First in the Nation Town Hall in New Hampshire on Saturday. Trump recently implied that he would be willing to consider Brown for the position. Asked by TheBlaze if Brown would be willing to run with Trump, he said that it is an “honor” to be considered for a vice presidential nomination, but it is still too “early in the process” to seriously consider the position. Brown, who lost a 2014 bid to represent New Hampshire in the Senate, recently hosted an event for Trump in the state. Brown has also hosted events for other candidates in his “No BS Backyard BBQ” series. According to The Hill, at the Trump rally last week, when an audience member suggested that the two join forces on the Republican ticket, Trump said, “Vice president – hey, that sounds like it could, hey, hey, very good.” “Hey, you know what? And he’s central casting. Look at that guy. Central casting,” Trump said. “He’s great. Great guy and a great, beautiful, great wife and family. So important.” Poster Comment: Brown hosted Trump in the Granite State as a part of his “No BS Backyard BBQ” series. He will also hold a rally with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) The former Massachusetts senator relocated to New Hampshire to challenge incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) for her seat in 2014, but lost in a close race.Trump floats Scott Brown as potential VP
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#16. To: hondo68, Vicomte13, TooConservative, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, liberator, tomder55, CZ82 (#0)
I see that we are now getting a peek of who Trump will stack in DC if elected. Brown is pro-choice. Having a pro-choice candidate on the ticket is the kiss of death if Trump wants the Pro-life vote to show up. Plus, if this is where his advisors are leading him, to a big NE liberal Republican on the ticket with a big NE billionaire then he needs to get new advisors. Trump needs someone from Ohio or Florida.
He'd pick Kasich, hoping to pick up 5% of Ohio as a result. A Republican has no chance to win nationally if he can't carry Ohio. A Dem nominee might be able to win without Ohio but Republicans have an electoral college disadvantage.
You don't get it. You're a dinosaur who doesn't get modern politics. He will not pick the prick Kasich. Kasich is the enemy. People in Ohio hate Kasich. Even my folks who voted for him and are more sympathetic to establishment candidates.
Re-elected in a historic landslide not long ago. There's real hatred for you. I dislike Kasich, personally and for his policies and his smarmy pronouncements to justify his straying into liberal policy. Not the same guy he was when he rose to House leadership as a conservative. But Kasich has a view of politics and the economy that is quite compatible with Trump. And Kasich would be a good pick in terms of working with Republicans in Congress. Both for election and for governance, Kasich makes the most sense for Trump. No other (available) GOP pol is quite so popular in a must-win state that the Dems will fight hard to keep in their column. Another ugly Trump VP pick (for conservatives) would be Rubio. For all the obvious reasons, Hispanic, talks a strong hardliner foreign policy line, eloquent speaker, impeccable family, etc. Neither Kasich or Rubio has launched any real frontal attacks on Trump though they've exchanges a few girly-slaps at pressers and debates. Nothing has been said by Trump or Kasich or Rubio to eliminate either as a VP pick. Unlike, say, Cruz or Paul or Bush who are radioactive as VP picks because they've said so many harsh things about Trump already. This is how VP lists get shortened mostly so there is nothing unusual about this process. Trump, as an "outsider" candidate, would benefit from a centrist "conservative" VP pick. Ohio is a tempting pick as it has been a while since Ohio had a GOP governor with some national reputation and establishment connections.
You're right about Rubio not having said anything nasty about Trump. Kasich has. Kasich is not the sort of winner Trump will pick. Rubio is a distinct possibility. The VP under Trump will be The Apprentice President. By the end of 8 years, whoever Trump's VP is, he'll be sold on the man and the plan, and unlike with Poppy Bush, we'll get 16 years of Trump. The new Prez after Trump will have Trump as his chief sage in the wings, with whom he consults all the time. We're going to get a good deal out of Trump. 16-24 years of consistent positive leadership will make America great again - greater than ever.
Kasich has. Kasich is not the sort of winner Trump will pick. Rubio is a distinct possibility. At some point, Trump becomes just another pol, like the rest. The American political process is having a short hiatus among the GOP conservative base but it is strictly temporary. Trump is not the fair-haired boy of American politics to whom no rules apply. At some point, it's politics like in any administration. Swoon much? You project what you want on to Trump, like a lot of his followers. You still have no concrete idea of what his actual policy proposals are because he likes to issue contradictory statements on almost every policy and then let everyone believe whatever they hope he actually said. You only get away with this early in the presidential season. Later on, you can't wiggle away from taking more concrete policy positions. Trump is no exception, contrary to the fantasies of most Trump supporters.
Or a national campaign. How many Trump for President HQs are there working now in the non-primary states, especially the battle ground states? Hitlery's minions are there now taking over what Obola never dismantled. Remember Obolo started running ads against Romney in 2012 starting in April in the battle ground state markets. A national campaign requires a party to run it in every corner where votes can be had. So valid point.
It is my understanding that Trump hasn't even set up phone banks in Iowa . http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-ground-game-iowa/
Supposedly phone banks are a voter turnoff, for the same reasons that traditional polling has begun to fail. People won't just pick up the phone any more. You'll recall how Perry and some other candidates like Walker have dispensed entirely with yard signs in recent campaigns and seemed not to suffer at all. So maybe phone banks, like the yard sign, are yesterday's campaign flotsam and not a major factor going forward with the millennials. Cruz has a very strong precinct captain organization, perhaps the best ever seen. And Trump hired probably the best single organizer in the state and his campaign manager Lewandowski's career was all about registering new voters. That has to mean something about what Trump wants to do as a political machine, probably the result of conferring with Roger Stone before Trump started running. Can Trump's community organizer supremo outperform Cruz's experienced team on the ground in 80% of the caucus precincts? No one really knows.
Just heard a rumor that Trump has not arranged for transportation to get Trump supporters to the caucus locations . Sometimes they have to travel many miles often in harsh weather ...and they have to be at the caucus locations on time . Trump has an overly simplified video of how a caucus works . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thi56OCkduA It makes it sound like a causus participant is in and out once they write his name on a ballot . Not true . There is lively discussions in the room with each side making it's case to the noncommitted . It is time-consuming because it includes discussing candidates, picking convention delegates and dealing with state party business. It is also not a secret ballot . Bernie Sanders video is more realistic about the process . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7CDk1NnzUc
Cruz is supposedly running the largest and most flawless conventional turnout operation the Iowa GOP has ever seen. That alone may require punishment by the quirky GOP Iowa voters. You know how they are. : ) I've wondered if refusing to appear in Iowa is just a way for Trump to wave off his likely defeat in Iowa by Cruz so he can bluster "Yeah, Iowa, state full of pretty corn, its caucus means nothing, I mean, c'mon, let's get serious".
I got an email from the Cruz campaign this morning . He wants a one on one debate with Trump. https://www.tedcruz.org/l/ducking-donald/
#79. To: tomder55, redleghunter (#77)
They registered the URL https://www.duckingdonald.com/ as well. They're advertising the URL in their ads too. They used a cheesy remake of a Scrooge McDuck cartoon for the website graphics.
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#25. To: redleghunter (#16)
Trump needs someone from Ohio or Florida.
#35. To: TooConservative (#25)
He'd pick Kasich, hoping to pick up 5% of Ohio as a result.
#38. To: A K A Stone, Vicomte13 (#35)
People in Ohio hate Kasich.
#43. To: TooConservative (#38)
#45. To: Vicomte13 (#43)
You're right about Rubio not having said anything nasty about Trump.
The VP under Trump will be The Apprentice President. By the end of
#51. To: TooConservative (#45)
At some point, it's politics like in any administration.
#57. To: redleghunter, TooConservative (#51)
#59. To: tomder55, redleghunter (#57)
It is my understanding that Trump hasn't even set up phone banks in Iowa .
#75. To: TooConservative, redleghunter (#59)
#76. To: tomder55 (#75)
Just heard a rumor that Trump has not arranged for transportation to get Trump supporters to the caucus locations.
#77. To: TooConservative (#76)
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