# Who will be Trump's VP? \[plus\] Trump's Vice-President choice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179 "2016-01-20T17:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/21 "2016-01-20T21:35:44Z")
For what it’s worth, apparently only one person who’s served in Congress has endorsed Trump, and he’s from purple-state Virginia, and it’d mean the posters and the bumper stickers and the phrase on everyone’s lips would be…TRUMP/GOODE! Seems crazy unlikely. Then again, what in his run _hasn’t_ been crazy unlikely? ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/22 "2016-01-20T21:48:13Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Then again, when was the last time the Presidential race runner-up got the VP spot on the ticket? (Not 1980; John Anderson finished second.) 2004, unless you meant specifically for the Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/23 "2016-01-20T22:43:17Z")
Tom Tancrado? He’s run on a similar nativist platform to Trump, while at the same time, he was a real-life GOP political office holder, and so brings at least some seriousness to the ticket. And he’s not doing anything at the moment. Plus his political career is pretty well over, so he’s got nothing to lose. It’d be interesting to see how many people would say no to a spot on the ticket. IIRC, McGovern got shut down serveral times before talking the unfortunate Eagleton into taking the job. I’d think Trump would have to dig even deeper to find someone who would both bring some level of seriousness to the ticket, while at the same time wanted to take the career risk of tying themselves to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/24 "2016-01-20T23:06:47Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > One former Apprentice contestant who would make a hilarious VP choice: Penn Jillette. No chance in hell. Penn has repeatedly said on [his podcast](http://pennsundayschool.com/) that if Trump is the GOP nominee, he will vote for Hillary. IIRC, he would actually be willing to campaign for her to stop Trump. Considering Penn is a hardcore libertarian who detests the Clintons, Hillary in particular, that should tell you his opinion of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/25 "2016-01-20T23:08:34Z")
I fear we are applying rational and reasonable criteria to predict the actions of a man who does not abide in them. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/26 "2016-01-20T23:15:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Scott Brown. He doesn’t really have a political career to risk any more. He may figure why not take a shot to get some ink in the papers and give him a leg up on the 2020 race. Which state’s Senate race? He’s got 48 left to try, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/27 "2016-01-20T23:21:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Paul Ryan is a possibility, … Despite the talk about Sarah Palin she’s an established loser, … Ryan has also lost a national election. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/28 "2016-01-20T23:28:24Z")
> [@glee](#): > > … > > **Who do you think he would choose as his VP?** > (You’re welcome to make it dependent on who wins the Democrat nomination.) Clearly, anyone who chose to run with Trump will (should) realize that they are committing political suicide. Trump is an egomaniac and clearly anyone running with him would have to be weak and spineless. Political suicide. Michele Bachmann is nutty enough to do it I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/29 "2016-01-20T23:43:15Z")
[ChristineO’Donnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_O%27Donnell)? She’s got nothing to lose and would bring the evangelical vote and negate gaffs like Trump made yesterday at Liberty University. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/30 "2016-01-20T23:50:39Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > [ChristineO’Donnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_O%27Donnell)? She’s got nothing to lose and would bring the evangelical vote and negate gaffs like Trump made yesterday at Liberty University. She’s famous for literally nothing other then loosing elections (and, umm, not being a witch, I guess). I think even Trump could find someone with better credentials then that. Hey, here’s a crazy-one. How about Mitt. He’s got nothing to lose, he still seems vaguely interested in being Prez, he would bring an “adult” to the ticket, he’s an actual successful GOP politician trusted by the establishment, family-value type voters seem to like him and he and Trump could have a unifying theme of being business-bros. And he has a pretty long track-record of swallowing his pride to appeal to the more xenophobic end of the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/31 "2016-01-21T00:08:48Z")
How about pistol-packin’ [Michele Fiore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Fiore)? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/32 "2016-01-21T00:32:25Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Michele Bachmann is nutty enough to do it I suppose. This is the first realistic suggestion in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/33 "2016-01-21T00:41:17Z")
Can I suggest Bruce Rauner? Not because I think he’s likely, or competent, but because it would be nice to get him out of my state for a while… ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/34 "2016-01-21T01:37:49Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being Cruz. Yes. Or Rubio. The reason I mention Rubio is that he gave up his Senate seat to run for president. The reason you are right about Cruz is that, until recently, he was frequently complimenting Trump. Cruz and Rubio would be under a lot of pressure, from the GOP establishment, to do it, so as to avoid the humiliation of not being able to recruit a well-known VP candidate. However, I can’t get past Trump’s (the next word is generous) nuttiness. How can any halfway sensible person want to be on the same ticket with someone having this ISIS policy: > [@](#): > > [I’m looking to take the oil. I want to take the oil. I want the oil.](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/08/trumps_isis_policy_im_not_looking_to_quagmire_i_want_to_take_the_oil.html) My best guess is that Trump would have to make a surprise pick, but I don’t really know. Maybe there is a Senator who can’t resist the limelight. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/35 "2016-01-21T01:50:14Z")
Rubio and Cruz are both ambitious and probably have fairly long careers ahead of them (though Rubio is apparently not running to retain his Senate seat). I have trouble imagining them signing on to a doomed Trump campaign. Especially Rubio, whose image is largely built on being a moderate Republican. I doubt he’d blow that up just for the opportunity to spend six months trying not to look like he’s gritting his teeth endorsing whatever crazy policy Trump was spouting off that week. Even outside of the Senate, he’ll probably want to leverage his current position into either another office or a cushy lobbyist or thinktank job. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/36 "2016-01-21T04:12:28Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Ryan has also lost a national election. Yeah, but people don’t blame the loss on him. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/37 "2016-01-21T05:03:25Z")
Trump is shrewder than people give him credit for, and there’s no way he’d pick someone like Palin or even Cruz. He’d be looking to balance the ticket and bring in more moderate Republicans, independents, and minorities. That means he needs someone mainstream. The trick would be finding someone who is: A. Willing to get on the Trump Train, virtually guaranteeing himself either an end to his political career or at least 4 years of living in Trump’s shadow during his presidency (I’m not sure which would be worse), and B. NOT going to upset Trump’s base too badly, who don’t want to hear anything from career politicians and Washington “insiders.” This person would be very difficult to find, considering that the best feeling the GOP mainstream can muster for Trump so far is “resignation.” ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/38 "2016-01-21T05:57:47Z")
Taylor Swift for me, low key Republican, hits all the right demographics and occasionally the right note. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/39 "2016-01-21T06:24:27Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > Taylor Swift for me, low key Republican, hits all the right demographics and occasionally the right note. Born: December 13, 1989 Sorry, she’s only 26. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-vp-plus-trumps-vice-president-choice/751179/40 "2016-01-21T07:13:00Z")
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