# Who will be Trump's running mate? (J. D. Vance Has Been Chosen) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511 "2024-01-22T20:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/202 "2024-04-05T23:12:56Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > His children are uniquely biddable because he has something to hold over them that he doesn’t over anyone else: their inheritance. Not Ivanka, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if her and Jared’s net worth is greater than Trump’s. Even if it’s not, they’re loaded. Filthy with it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/203 "2024-04-06T02:46:00Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > > [@Hoops](#): > > > > His children are uniquely biddable because he has something to hold over them that he doesn’t over anyone else: their inheritance. > > Not Ivanka, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if her and Jared’s net worth is greater than Trump’s. Even if it’s not, they’re loaded. Filthy with it. The Kushner family has certainly made a ton of money destroying the Jersey Shore. Chuck, Josh and Jared are worth over $5 billion together probably more. None of them seemed to be in a hurry to help Trump financially. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/204 "2024-04-06T03:25:38Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Not Ivanka, anyway. From Vanity Fair: [Inside the Terrifyingly Competent Trump 2024 Campaign](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/inside-trump-2024-campaign) > [@](#): > > In the summer of 2009, Trump told people how furious he was that his daughter Ivanka got engaged to Jared Kushner and agreed to convert to Judaism. “You’re not going to believe this, my daughter is going to be a…_Jew,_ ” Trump said, according to a person who heard the remarks. According to a source, Trump told Christie, who was the former US attorney in New Jersey, to help him stop the marriage. So no veepdom for her. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/205 "2024-04-06T06:21:22Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > he’d prefer no vice-president at all, but that would be so flagrantly against the rules that I _think_ it wouldn’t fly even among the _but what if we didn’t . . ._ crowd Well, with no VP if he kicked it his successor would be Speaker of the House who could well be a Democrat. Of course, that would require him to be playing two-dimensional chess. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/206 "2024-04-06T10:34:39Z")
Trump is interested… > “I like Trump-Kennedy,” the former president recently told one person. “I like the way that sounds.” …but Kennedy says it’s out of the question. [Gift link:] > **[Trump-Kennedy 2024? Trump, at Least, Is Intrigued by the Idea.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/us/politics/trump-rfk-running-mate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.ZF2m.XmnOpJdqMEM5&smid=url-share)** > > The former president has privately floated the idea of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a running mate. Those close to him do not see it as a serious possibility, however, and Mr. Kennedy said he would not consider it. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/207 "2024-04-06T13:33:26Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > Trump is interested… The story is a surprising because Trump is supposedly running a low-press-leakage campaign this time. First thought is — gaffe. Donald said it in private, but in politics, there is no private. Trump wants to sell that Kennedy is a Democrat, so Bobby will peel votes away from Biden. The last thing DJT wants is to make voters see Kennedy as Trump-adjacent. Then there’s the conspiracy theory analytic approach. Maybe, deflecting attention away from Biden is so supremely important that Trump authorized the leaks. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/208 "2024-04-07T16:42:26Z")
I’m thinking the primary qualification for Trump’s VP slot will be assurances that said person will issue a complete blanket pardon for Trump _a la_ Ford/Nixon. The person will have to either be completely trustworthy, (who?) or Trump must have significant leverage (read blackmail) over the person. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/209 "2024-04-07T20:45:49Z")
The second qualification will be not pulling a Pence when the time for continuation arrives in 2028. He won’t want people around him who are loyal to the constitution like he had last time. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/210 "2024-04-08T01:01:47Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Trump wants to sell that Kennedy is a Democrat, so Bobby will peel votes away from Biden Please don’t call him “Bobby.” To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, RFK Jr. is no Bobby Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/211 "2024-04-08T02:32:16Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Please don’t call him “Bobby.” To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, RFK Jr. is no Bobby Kennedy. He refers to himself that way, and Time used it repeatedly when he was arrested in 1983: > **[Crash Landing For Bobby](https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,949812,00.html)** > > Kennedy faces heroin charge Being a son of America's most lustrous political family is both a > blessing and a curse. He basks in the reflected glory of his kin, but > he also feels the burden of... But it’s probably in the same category as Mrs. Clinton – fine with Hillary Clinton, but annoys the heck out of lots of others. So I’ll try to remember, but no promises 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/212 "2024-04-11T13:34:39Z")
In the recent 538 podcast, they still think Tim Scott is the most likely running mate pick. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/213 "2024-04-11T16:57:42Z")
I can’t see a white supremacist selecting a black running mate. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/214 "2024-04-11T17:06:01Z")
Hey, a porn-star-banging heathen who embodies the seven deadly sins selected an ultra-pious choir boy, so who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/215 "2024-04-11T17:07:11Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I can’t see a white supremacist selecting a black running mate. I firmly believe that Donnie is a Trump supremacist first. Don’t misunderstand me, I know he’s very bigoted, but he’ll pick anyone that will let him win. And happily dump them and run them down verbally every chance he gets. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/216 "2024-04-11T19:44:05Z")
Marjorie Greene just made her case for running mate, saying recently that if she had been veep during Don’s first term, that he would still be president. Nicely played imho, because if he wins in November the next four years will be all about getting _another_ four after that. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/217 "2024-04-11T19:50:19Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Marjorie Greene just made her case for running mate, saying recently that if she had been veep during Don’s first term, that he would still be president. Did she mean she’d make Trump so popular that he’d have gotten more votes in 2020, or that she’d have “done what Mike Pence should have” in terms of…making Trump president by stroke of a pen? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/218 "2024-04-11T19:52:00Z")
She would not have “caved” on certification like Pence did. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/219 "2024-04-11T20:01:03Z")
I’d like to see her try. Her face expression when she realizes that the vice president cannot, in fact, keep a sitting president in office by certifying Biden’s votes as Trump’s, would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/220 "2024-04-11T20:05:33Z")
Lieberman, while not an especially exciting individual, helped Gore distance himself from Clinton. And brought Florida into play. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/221 "2024-04-11T23:34:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > > [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > > > Marjorie Greene just made her case for running mate, saying recently that if she had been veep during Don’s first term, that he would still be president. > > Did she mean she’d make Trump so popular that he’d have gotten more votes in 2020, or that she’d have “done what Mike Pence should have” in terms of…making Trump president by stroke of a pen? The second, I’m sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=12)