This is a real possibility. She is very sharp.
It would be good insurance against those who might try to quell Trump’s insurgency by assassinating him. Ivanka could step in Bhutto style and faithfully advance the Trump agenda and personify the message.
Ivanka seems to be a hard working, well spoken, thoughtful woman. This is contrary to the stereotype about rich daughters. It is also rather inconvenient to the Trump as misogynist narrative that she is his daughter.
Sorry, but it changes nothing about the multitude of sexist statements he’s made over his lifetime, nor will it change women’s votes one jot.
Aside from the “someone most people have never heard of” part, he fits the bill quite diabolically.
Does Ivanka live in NY? Might be a problem, as the NY electors couldn’t cast their votes for both of them. Sure, he’s not going to carry NY anyway, so the point is moot. But it would be a bit interesting to have a vice president that the president said he’d like to date if she wasn’t his daughter.
As covered back in posts 9 & 10, the only effect of them both being from NY is that NY’s electors wouldn’t be able to cast their votes for both. Pretty much a non-issue for three reasons: as you point out, the Trumps wouldn’t win NY anyway; the Senate is under sufficient Republican control that they’d be able to install I. Trump in the event of her father winning the Presidency, but I. Trump being unable to clear a majority of votes for the VP; it’s easily worked around (see Cheney, Dick.)
Message? Agenda? If Trump has either of those, he’s been keeping them under wraps.
And it does nothing to dispel the narrative of Trump as a misogynist when the only compliment he can think of for a woman is that he’d like to date her, even when the woman in question is his own daughter.
Oh, and it’d also incidentally defang any attacks he could make against Clinton for being part of a family dynasty.
I’m glad you posted this thread, because now I have someplace appropriate to complain about the bumper sticker I saw on a car today:
Trump/Cheney 2016
Really?? Who really thinks fucking Cheney is a good choice to come back?
Certainly Trump has an agenda. It has to do with personal aggrandizement at any cost. And I do mean any.
Bolton is the kind of guy I had in mind. The Muslim ban would never happen anyway. Also Bolton’s mustache will distract people from Donald’s hair. Win-win!
Is there an implied argument here that Trump will carefully consider the pros and cons of choosing his running mate, and make a rational choice that will maximize his chance of winning? Because if so, I reject that premise. On the other hand, if you’re merely making the case that Ivanka would be a poor choice, then I can only agree.
I know better than to try to make any predictions about what Trump will do.
Cthulhu.
Actually, I still think Cruz.
What is this I hear about a Convention Choice of VP?
I know rules for VP now are different from back in Washington’s day, but am I correct to assume that the article is saying the VP is decided by the convention? Like, they vote for the nominee, then they vote for the VP? Its not just whoever the nominee picks? So its possible that the delegates can pick a VP first, get that out of the way, and THEN pick a nominee and Trump or Cruz or whoever can’t do anything except accept it?
Two spellings. Same being.
The kind of people who think Trump is a good idea in the first place. It actually makes sense. Evil, fucked up sense, but sense nonetheless.
After all, if Cheney was able to shepherd GWB through 8 years well in over his head, perhaps he can do the same for Trump.
OTOH, we’ve already pretty well trashed the Middle East. I wonder which other region we’ll trash if Trump/Cheney comes to pass? :eek:
29, 30, 31…
Oh, sorry, just counting the trillions the national debt would be by the end of that administration’s only term…
I always maintained in previous threads about potential VP candidates that Donald Trump would choose as running mate someone who is a career politician. He needs that experience and his answers have all alluded to it.
Forget stupid answers that mentioned Ben Carson, or some fellow billionaire like Mark Cuban. Not all tickets have to have a balance, but a Trump led ticket truly needs a politician to balance that out.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is also fitting that bill.
I think the nominee personally chooses his/her running mate aND it is not decided by delegates.
Fairly positive about that.
Christie yes, he is moderate Republican that can attract more voters to a Trump ticket, whereas Cruz is way too conservative and not as liked by the establishment.
The modern practice is for the presidential nominee to announce his choice of a running mate before the convention, and the convention delegates then approve it. But Adlai Stevenson allowed the convention to choose his running mate for him in 1956, and in 2008, John McCain didn’t pick Joe Lieberman as his VP in part because his advisors warned him the convention would balk. So it’s not necessarily a rubber stamp.