Will Trump really pick Rubio Vance or Burgum - more about the three veepstakes by Fox News
"For months, the media-industrial complex has churned out useless speculation about the veepstakes, much of it generated by the wannabe candidates themselves", Howard Kutz from Fox News reports.
"What made most of the stories shaky is that Trump hadn’t made up his mind. Now he says he has, but hasn’t told the lucky contender. Of course, there’s nothing stopping Trump from changing his mind at the last minute, which he is famously prone to do.
Still, with the vetting process under way and multiple news outlets reporting that it is down to a fortunate trio, I’m inclined to take those stories more seriously.
Those three are Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance and Doug Burgum.
Rubio, the only one with a national reputation, might seem a no-brainer. To name the first Hispanic vice president would obviously excite that community, even though it is not a monolith and Cuban-Americans would be the most energized.
As a strong speaker, he would definitely make news - which is also his pitfall. Trump doesn’t like to be overshadowed. From day one, whether overtly or not, Rubio would be running for president in 2028.
Rubio has made a point of not campaigning for the job. He didn’t join some of the other aspirants by showing up for Trump’s Manhattan trial. This, by some accounts, has made Trump question how badly Marco wants the job, but I think it’s just a different style.
J.D. Vance is not a household name and has been a senator for less than two years. He gained public notice for his best-selling book "Hillbilly Elegy," which drew widespread praise (and some criticism) for explaining the kind of White voters who would fuel Trump’s win.
But Vance opposed the ex-president in 2016 and was on the "Never Trump" train ("idiot," "reprehensible"), a stance he conveniently dropped when he ran for office.
Vance undoubtedly has the sharpest intellect of the group, the backing of Donald Trump Jr. and the most pro-MAGA voting record, but his view of the revolution differs from Trump’s.
Vance told New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, who knew him before he was an author: "I was confronted with the reality that part of the reason the anti-Trump conservatives hated Donald Trump was that he represented a threat to a way of doing things in this country that has been very good for them."
Which brings us to Doug Burgum. He’s a governor! Has been for eight years. Yes, the governor of the small state of North Dakota, whose three electoral votes Trump would win anyway, but the former president has spent a lot of time with him and really likes him - despite Burgum running against him earlier in the presidential election cycle.
For one thing, he’s a fellow tycoon, having sold his tech company two decades ago to Microsoft for a billion bucks. For another, he’s charming in a subdued way. And Burgum has "the look" - the dignified appearance of a vice president - and Trump loves to embrace those who look like they’re from central casting.
When I interviewed Burgum a few weeks back, he downplayed his chances and said he has a dozen private-sector ideas he’d love to try rather than taking a Cabinet position.
The mild-mannered gent can also throw a punch. Burgum told FOX’s Martha MacCallum last week that "under Joe Biden, we’re actually living under a dictatorship today where he’s, you know, bypassing Congress on immigration policy; he’s bypassing Congress on protecting our border; he’s bypassing Congress on student loan forgiveness; he’s defying the Supreme Court."
So, by the process of elimination, Burgum creates the fewest problems for Trump. He’s not angling to run for president in four years, he’s not going to draw much attention from the president and he has a greater chance than I thought he did when we did our interview." Kurtz reports.
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