Exclusive — Donald Trump: Who Gets Vice
Presidential Nod ‘Has Never Made a Difference’
in Election Outcome
Breitbart Politics,
by
Matthew Boyle
&
Alexander Marlow
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/4/2024 11:22:16 PM
Palm Beach, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for president in 2024, told Breitbart News exclusively during a two-hour-plus interview at Mar-a-Lago last week that the person who gets the nod for vice president will not make much difference in the grand scheme of things regarding winning the election.
“If you study the history of presidential runs, a vice president has never made a difference—which is surprising,” Trump said. “It’s a one-night story, and then they’re back to a regular evening. They’re voting for the president. They’re not voting for the vice president.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/5/2024 2:14:15 AM (No. 1629879)
I'll probably get slammed for this but I like Sarah Palin. She got a raw deal from her own party when she ran with McCain. But thankfully this is not my decision.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissMann 1/5/2024 2:27:49 AM (No. 1629883)
Maybe not, but setting up your successor by providing them the executive experience of being your VP IS important. Trump is horrible with personnel decisions. We can't afford for him to waste any positions this time around.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rama41 1/5/2024 3:19:17 AM (No. 1629892)
There he goes again,
not thinking past the time it takes for the words to come out of this mouth. The selection of a Vice President is a lot more than a "one-night story". Ask a Vietnam vet.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 1/5/2024 5:28:58 AM (No. 1629913)
Sorry, Donald, don't agree. Reagan did not like George Bush, but when he made him his VP, he picked up quite a few of Bush's supporters.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Aspen02 1/5/2024 6:55:19 AM (No. 1629955)
The VP pick sure matters if Biden runs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
KayJayMac 1/5/2024 7:11:01 AM (No. 1629964)
I never would have voted for McCain if not for Sarah.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
privateer 1/5/2024 7:37:59 AM (No. 1629976)
Andrew Johnson, LBJ, Gerald Ford. Yeah, I guess he's right. And Pence really had your back, didn't he?
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Trump doesn't need an assist, but he needs to choose carefully.
Some choices will result in a target on his back.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/5/2024 7:58:29 AM (No. 1629993)
I voted for Sarah Palin.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/5/2024 8:02:15 AM (No. 1629998)
A Yankee Catholic has no chance of winning the presidency in 1960 without the very solid Democrat South. Problem is the solid South hates Yankess and isn't too keen on Catholics. So the shroud Yankee Catholic picks the very powerful and ruthless Senate Majority Leader as VP. The VP candidates then commences to intimidate and threaten every Southern Goobenor and major elected official to support the Yankee Catholic. Without the Solid South, all the voter Fraud in Chicago amounts to a hit of Boston beans. Then the Yankee Catholic President is assassinate and the shroud, ruthless VP is now president. I don't think there has ever been a VP with more impact on the election and later president than Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/5/2024 8:25:09 AM (No. 1630019)
Yeah, whatever; we still don't want Nikki Haley as VP. For a whole host of reasons. We need a conservative VP period.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 1/5/2024 9:00:52 AM (No. 1630035)
Not entirely true. I voted for Sarah with the idea that the old man might not make it through a full term.
My vote absolutely was not for him and if she wasn't on the ticket I wouldn't have voted.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 1/5/2024 9:03:10 AM (No. 1630039)
Just sitting here thinking...how about Trump and the 'Mama Bear'??? That would be a combination...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/5/2024 9:09:37 AM (No. 1630044)
I think it's just Trump being Trump! He does not want anyone else to get any of the glory for winning. It has to be HE and HE alone who wins the Presidency! He just can't help himself! I would think it would be kind of hard to find a VP after saying he/she would not "make a difference"! The Press would throw that in their Face over and over! Might call them the "Kamala" of the Trump Presidency! Hope Trump will come out and "clarify", but it's kind of hard to do that when you said out loud what you were thinking!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/5/2024 9:37:35 AM (No. 1630062)
Agree w/ #10. TX went to Eisenhower in the 1950s, and would have continued that trend without LBJ on the Democrat ticket in 1960. In 1944 FDR dropped VP Wallace from the ticket, an avowed left-winger, for little-known Truman.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 1/5/2024 10:13:14 AM (No. 1630092)
I didn't vote for McVain, I voted for Sarah Palin.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/5/2024 10:54:00 AM (No. 1630111)
How many voters have voted for the other party because of a VP selection?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 1/5/2024 11:31:33 AM (No. 1630132)
Kamala Harris might. I know some Democrats who voted for Biden in 2020 but are now really worried that if he is reelected he will die in office and Harris will become President. In the 2020 primaries Harris was the first to drop out because no Democrats wanted her to be President then and she has not improved since then.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/5/2024 12:27:44 PM (No. 1630162)
our President is right of course .... again and the fact that any president needed a vice president was only in case the president died or was booted out of office and
- mike pence was the perfect example of a worthless vice president holding office with an overly qualified president and
- nikolai haley is not the one for the 2024 ticket but
- it should not be up to the RNC to pick our President's running mate
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Harlowe 1/5/2024 1:01:53 PM (No. 1630190)
A reality check for naysayers criticizing President Trump’s political “personnel selections” would be to consider his career in the business world and the need to hire and fire people based on adaptability, competency, critical thinking, dedication, education, experience, expertise, honesty, integrity, motivation, pragmatism, resourcefulness, responsibility, self-sufficiency. Did he provide successful leadership for the company his parents developed? Was he a successful businessman? Does “The Trump Organization” indicate any level of success with private citizen Donald John Trump at the helm?
Did President Trump have any noteworthy accomplishments during his four-year term of office? If in doubt, take note of “50 Things” he accomplished that “the establishment media have worked so hard to hide.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/07/29/50-things-they-dont-want-you-know-trump-harpercollins-reveals-breitbart-editor-jerome-hudsons-book-cover/
‘50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump’: HarperCollins Reveals Breitbart Editor Jerome Hudson’s Book Cover
Breitbart News - 29 Jul 2020
Publishing powerhouse HarperCollins has released the cover of Breitbart News Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson’s latest book, 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump, which promises to deliver counterintuitive facts about the president’s first term that the establishment media have worked so hard to hide.
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To denigrate “President Trump” for the individuals who ultimately proved less than desirable or disastrous is unreasonable; while private citizen Donald John Trump was politically astute, he had no way of being certain at the time of his presidential victory the backgrounds of individuals being recommended to him to fill the needed positions that go with assuming the presidency. Having been subjected to the most hateful betrayals, plots, schemes and traps ever seen by American patriots, it would be foolhardy to presume President Trump does now not have the ability to be more astute in selecting political appointees.
Private citizen Donald John Trump’s success as a business tycoon, and President Donald John Trump’s success as President, exhibit a unique man fully capable of success regardless of bumps in the road due to imperfect or perilous staff personnel.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chumley 1/5/2024 1:04:32 PM (No. 1630191)
Like so many others here, I voted for Palin and that rino grifter running with her. As it turned out, my vote didnt make any difference to the outcome, but thats the system. Voting is a lot like writing a letter to Santa.
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