Ronald Reagan picked Sen. Richard Schweiker of PA before the 1976 convention, in which he succeeded only in ruining President Ford’s chances in November.
Interesting; had to google it. I was alive then but I was only 8. At least Reagan waited for the convention and that was a very close race.
Dick Cheney already pulled that trick, and look what happened.
Any news on Kasich’s reaction? This seems like kind of a jerk move given that Kasich just agreed to cede Indiana.
This isn’t going to work out nearly as well for Cruz as it did for Reagan.
He’s trying to attract to women voters who hate Donald Trump.
Playing to one of Trump’s weak spots is not a completely terrible idea. Unfortunately, Cruz doesn’t have binders of women who would be willing to stand up with him, so the only womancard he could play was Fiorina. I’m sure he thinks it’s all the same to us gals.
Is it me, or does Fiorina look like one of those characters out of Team America: World Police?
Hey, if the back of the bill would be good enough for Harriett Tubman, the back of the ticket is good enough for Carly. Was anyone truly expecting any better from the Republicans? Carly is lucky she didn’t get sent back to fetch a beer for Cruz during his speech.
Makes sense but still, stick a fork in him, he’s done.
Funny to put it that way but okay, in that light, compared to what the Democrats are doing Cruz’s move isn’t all that bad.
What have the Democrats done that’s comparable to this stunt? I honestly have no idea what you could be referring to.
The sad part is that I don’t know if you are joking. Do we see Fiorina v Cruz filed on Dec 20th (the day after the electors vote) to implement Section 3 of the 20th Amendment?
Lemme see if I have this straight…
The sitting President can’t nominate a Justice of the Supreme Court **eleven months ** before the end of his term…
…but Cruz can pick a VP candidate before the convention.
Yeah. Okay. :dubious:
Future historians are going to want whatever we are smoking in this era.
That Bernie Sanders just announced that his running mate is Janeane Garofalo.
I’ll never forgive her for using a notepad during her standup so Bernie just lost my vote.
Can’t believe so many people are responding that he only picked her because she’s a woman and it’s blatantly to try to secure the female vote. What year is it in the US?
I mean, their views do align on lots of issues, and she did run a pretty good campaign with some strong debate performances…but none of that could be it, you only hire women if you need to pretend you think of them as equals, amirite?!
Disclaimer: I’d never vote for either of them
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To Republicans, 1956.
Those are reasons to pick a VP at the normal time–after securing the nomination. At that point, the candidate may well mostly being thinking “who would I trust to be President if I died? Who will work well with my administration?”
Picking a VP at this point in the process is so desperate that it has to be motivated primarily because you think it will attract primary votes–so demographics are a plausible guess.
It’s not that Cruz chose a woman, it’s that he chose this woman. Fiorina had two strong debate performances at the beginning, but then faded from view. She won only one delegate before dropping out. Some of her biggest moments in her campaign were lying about what was on the Planned Parenthood videos. She has no political experience and has some good business experience but is most famous for HP and it’s layoffs. If I was on Cruz’s campaign, I don’t know who I would pick as a good VP choice for him, but Fiorina would not be near the top of the list. She’s only a good choice now because it gets him in the news a bit when he needs it, and maybe she’ll help in California though that is questionable.
Also, the demographics of the VP choice is always something that’s discussed. I don’t know how much it makes a difference for the voters, but choosing a VP who might appeal to different voters than the presidential candidate is something a lot of campaigns do, and I’m sure it was under consideration here. And it makes sense for Cruz to pick a woman now, both to counter what Trump says about women, and also to look ahead to competing against Clinton. In her primary campaign Fiorina often talked about Clinton and how she’d be the best to face her as another woman.
So Fiorina is playing the “Woman Card”?