Will he decide to pick a non-politician? Let’s say he decides to pick a non politician with business/media savvy and high name recognition. Would he consider Kim Kardashian? The sad thing is I’m mostly serious. It could potentially alienate some of his current supporters so perhaps not.
I wonder if Christie has come out for Trump in the hopes that he’ll be the VP pick. He (Christie) could be thinking that there’s no way Trump survives without doing something impeachable and this is his path to the White House.
Insofar as Trump has any actual political message, it is mainly about immigration and protectionism – he does not need a running mate who is known for the same positions on those issues, but he does need one who is not known to have taken any different positions – and any Pub Congresscritter might well be compromised on one point or the other – so Christie, as a state governor who has no occasion to deal with such matters, is probably the safest choice.
OTOH, that would be a two-oaf ticket . . . perhaps some better balance is required.
What about the possibility of Trump channeling Apollo Creed and picking up an unknown but highly charismatic, intelligent, and informed woman combat veteran born in the 1980’s? When Hillary asserts her foreign policy experience, the young veep attack dog could strike back: “Mrs Clinton says she landed under sniper fire once, which doesn’t even seem to be true, I don’t know anything about that, but what I can tell you is that when I was in Iraq I WAS the sniper, and Al Qaeda was afraid of ME, not the other way around.”
An announcement of an unknown would rock the news cycle for weeks, very Trumpy.
Bush, pere, picked Dan Quayle, and people called it “assassination insurance.” Is anyone like that available? Useless enough to keep the guns holstered, but bland enough not to ding the ticket (the way Sarah Palin did to McCain)?
