There’s nothing like doing civic duty, is there? 
Some pretty senior GOP strategists, Ed Rollins included, want Trump to run with Newt Gingrich. Why, you ask? Their six marriages between them “mean they ‘certainly understand women”.
No, that’s not The Onion.
Trump said that Oprah would be a great running mate. (He also mentioned her as a running mate in 1999.)Then later he said that it was a joke.
I believe there is a real chance, not >50% or anything, but a non-negligible chance, that he is actually considering her, a fellow self-made billionaire. Calling the idea a joke and saying he is going to run with an experienced politician may simply be misdirection to throw people off of the trail and ensure that it comes as a total surprise, which will be the biggest story around and dominate news cycles for weeks unless something huge and unexpected happens.
There is a downside that choosing her will come across as pandering due to her race and gender, but like Trump she is very successful and independent. And she has a degree in political science. These things will blunt to optics of her choice being a pandering move. And any outright accusations of pandering will be made to look racist and misogynistic when Trump fires back that he is did not choose her because she is black or because she is a woman, but that he chose her because she is Oprah, an American with decades of experience leading an immensely successful organization.
You talk like she doesn’t actually have a choice in the matter. I imagine she’d rather barbecue and eat Steadman on live television while nude before she joined Trump’s ticket.
Pure fantasy. Leaving aside whether she would accept, you’re left with a ticket with absolutely no experience in governing.
My experience, while anecdotal, is still a step above your imagination, and my experience tells me that what the average Trumpophobe imagines black people’s opinion on Trump is, or should be, does not always match up so well with reality. Example. Another example. This is especially true among the more successful black people that I know personally.
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Pure fantasy. Leaving aside whether she would accept, you’re left with a ticket with absolutely no experience in governing.
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You are underestimating how much the country is in the mood for political outsiders right now, although the evidence is all around you.
So you say, but there’s a big difference between polling nearly six months before an election and the decision when walking into the voting booth.
Based on the provenance of a lot of the ‘evidence’ provided before, I’m not particularly worried.
My opinion expressed on Oprah had absolutely nothing to do with her being black.
Mark Cuban is open to being either Trump or Clinton’s running mate. Clinton won’t pick him, but Trump might.
If he is so politically clueless and ideologically bankrupt as to have said that, he is automatically disqualified.
How much real ideological daylight is there between Trump and Clinton. Forget what they say, go by their records and the things they said when they weren’t running for office(especially in Trump’s case).
Cuban made the offer because he knows those two and knows they are good buddies who don’t disagree on much in private. And he agrees with them.
A lot of speculation around here the last couple days that Trump is seriously considering Sen. Bob Corker - TN ® as his running mate. Corker had a private meeting with him in New York the other day. He’s also the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, so would add a sliver of legitimacy to the ticket’s foreign policy expertise.
I’m just excited about the prospect of him giving up his seat, even if it means our Republican governor gets to fill it. Gov. Haslam at least occasionally flirts with being a moderate.
Trump needs the support of the party. If he’s serious about getting and keeping the job, he’s going to need to get the Republicans on his side. I could see him offering the party the selection of the Supreme Court nominee and the VP, regardless of his personal ideology.
A Trump-Corker ticket is amusing to say. Trump-Corker!
Oh god that means we’ll see another stupid name-changing widget.
His veep is Corker, Trump’s a New Yorker,
They got a pair of legs
Just like two whiskey kegs …
Corker’s a good man. Still won’t vote for Trump, but at least someone good is a heartbeat away when Trump blows a gasket because he doesn’t get his way.
Trump has no record in public office, so what should we look to? Before he was running, he was pro-choice and pro-single-payer-healthcare. Now he says he’s not. He has also moved sharply to the right on both immigration and guns.
Hillary, on the other hand, has always been pro-choice and for whatever healthcare-reform measure stood the best chance of passage at the time. Her record on immigration and gun control has been consistently liberal.
Except for wanting to build a wall, oh wait, a fence. She voted for it because it was called a fence. She’s also against drivers’ licenses for illegals, at least when Chris Dodd said he was against it and she realized she’d gotten to the left of the field. Then she was against DLs for illegals. I think. Oh well, Barack Obama said he couldn’t figure out her position on the issue and he went to Harvard, what chance I have?
But all joking aside, Trump and Clinton have both spent more time in Third Way land than any other place. Cuban knows both of them and seems all right with both of them. I don’t think Cuban is ignorant, in fact he probably has a better handle on the situation than either you or I do.
One poster seemed to say that Trump “has” to govern as a Republican if he wins because he needs the support of the party. Since when? Trump will do whatever the hell he wants once elected, as will Clinton. Trump doesn’t need the GOP to back him, and Clinton knows the Democrats will follow her no matter where she takes them as long as she’s winning. And part of that is that her most loyal voters don’t care about ideology. The white progressives will have no voice in her administration because most of them supported her opponent anyway. She’ll be governing for the rest of the Democratic base, and they liked Bill’s policies just fine.
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort: We’ll pick a white man for VP. Anything else would be “pandering.”