Prediction: Nikki Haley will be Trump's running mate in 2020

[octoberlib]

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This op-ed pushing a Trump-Nikki Haley ticket is by former NYC pol Andrew Stein (who later pled guilty to lying in a financial fraud). Stein knows Trump, of course, and is close to others in Trump world. Zero chance this trial balloon isn’t ok with Trump.

[Bengus81]

1. ROFLOL.....nah

[watoos]

2. She isn't that stupid,

She will run in 2024.

[octoberlib]

12. Of course , I might be wrong but it wouldn't

be about keeping Trump in power but keeping the Republican Party in power. We’ll see.

[sarabelle]

35. Good. That will finish off her political career. I don't like her. She is a phony.

[duforsure]

3. Just maybe trump had him put this out for a reason

He things she may run against him, and this is too claim she's running against him because he turned her down for the VP position , even though he didn't, and much like he did claiming the same with Mueller. He's scared of Haley, she's smart, and she hates him. He may have a mole who told him the GOP are thinking about dumping him for her. This could be trump projecting to use against her.

[hlthe2b]

6. Everything with him is a projection so who knows...

[shanny]

4. Someone here did note

A lack of mention of Mother's boy at the campaign kickoff....

What he wants isn't necessarily what she wants tho. She worked for him for a while but managed to bail with her reputation largely intact.

[TeamPooka]

31. Pence's name was missing from every single sign at the kickoff rally.

it was noticeable.

[DonaldsRump]

5. Won't dumping Pence enrage the evangelicals? n/t

[hlthe2b]

8. Having sold their "soul" and claimed Trump is "God-Sent" they will have to find someway to justify

and save face. There are no bigger hypocrites.

[octoberlib]

9. Haley's an evangelical, herself and

a couple months ago she was in Charlotte for a meeting with evangelical leaders.

[customerserviceguy]

37. That was my first thought

But Haley does attend Methodist services (as well as Sihk ones) and that's probably close enough for the fundies. But, many of them have put up with Trump thinking that Pence will eventually be president. It might be tough to switch them over to a female who has ties to an non-Christian faith tradition.

[Blue_true]

42. Trump believes that he has rightwing evangelicals in his back pocket.

There was an article several months back about him believing that Pence was expndable because rightwing evangelicals were going to stay with Trump come hell or high water. If you look at his favorability readings among rightwing evangelicals, Trumps dumping Pence and not suffering with that group is a real possibility.

[elfin]

7. Yes. Have thought that before

Don't think she has landed a good gig after ditching the UN. She has an ego that may think she can restrain his worst impulses as well as position herself for 2024.

Smarter people than her have fallen for this idea and are now in the Trump trash heap.

[empedocles]

10. The UN Ambassador with 'benefits' quote was plausibly tape confirmed as coming from trump,

now . . . ?

[dawg day]

16. Wha? Tell more?

What tape? I'm intriguedL!

[empedocles]

21. Wolff quoting unnamed, but taped sources, wrote that trump claimed he got a bj from Nikki

Wolff in 'Fire', the book of trump's 1st year, took a lot of flak at the time for a lot of his 'outrageous' statements. However, despite all kinds of threats of lawsuits, I haven't heard of any that materialized - taping and confirming probably helped. [The Fire book, somewhat like the Steele Dossier, has held up pretty well over time].

[Loki Liesmith]

28. Wolff gets trashed but

Work on Trump seems solid

[empedocles]

47. Wolff's work seems to have held up fairly well

[Blue_true]

43. She has a history of issues with infidelity. It plagued her in South Carolina. nt

[tanyev]

11. Why does the op-ed writer assume that Haley would go for this?

She seemed pretty eager to get out while her credibility in GOP circles was still intact. Looks to me like she is positioning herself as the post-Trump solution.

[octoberlib]

13. To try to pressure Haley? Stein is still a Democrat

as far as I know. He must be trying to keep his tax cuts.

[TeamPooka]

32. Because it would put her in line and make her a contender for the Oval Office for the rest

of her life.
Even if Trump loses in 2020

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. He can't afford to lose the rapture bunny vote.

Not sure Nikki can carry that constituency.

On edit: they bought trump bullshit, so maybe they could take a chance on her, too. Yuck

[pecosbob]

15. He'd never allow anyone else on stage that might take even a little bit of attention away from him

[dawg day]

17. Pence acts like a lapdog whipping boy,

And this is what he gets? Geez, selling your soul doesn't get you much cred with Trump.

[CTyankee]

18. I can just see her up against Mayor Pete (if he is our VP candidate) in a debate.

Haley is sneaky but Mayor Pete will have sussed that out before hand and be ready for her. She's pretty canny herself but Mayor Pete will handle her well.

[Aristus]

19. A brown-skinned woman? I don't think so.

The repukes would never go for it.

They went for Sarah Palin because she's a white-skinned, gun-crazed, Jesus-freak.

They won't allow Nikki Haley into the VP spot.

[customerserviceguy]

38. She managed to get nominated and elected

in a place where Sarah Palin would have done very well.

[Aristus]

41. Still, I'm not taking that action.

Sarah Palin happened before the current frightening upsurge in misogyny in this country.

[obamanut2012]

20. Nah, Haley is too smart -- she'll run for Senator

[Johonny]

22. I was assuming Ivanka or Trump Jr.

[Totally Tunsie]

23. Who'd have to tell Pencie he's fired?

tRump doesn't have the cojones to do it.

[Ilsa]

26. Pence will find out after the campaign signs are made. nt

[Blue_true]

44. Likely. nt

[customerserviceguy]

39. Pence will get a tweet. n/t

[CrispyQ]

24. I think so too.

A desperate attempt to save the woman vote. It could work, too. At least with the 53% of white women who voted for the Con the first time.

[Ilsa]

25. Or Lindsey Graham, with Haley taking Graham's senate seat? nt

[Ilsa]

27. We could start selling bogus Trump-Graham 2020 bumper stickers

and force trump's hand, make him state who his running mate is.

[democratisphere]

29. Nikki Haley and Mitt Romney will be running in place of drumpf in 2020.

[exboyfil]

30. Who will sign Trump's pardon?

If Trump loses in 2020. I envision him leaving before inauguration to allow Pence to pardon him.

Pence might not be too inclined if he is kicked off the ticket.

[Totally Tunsie]

34. Wouldn't that be delicious...

[customerserviceguy]

40. Hmm, good point

Gotta keep Pence on board...

[brooklynite]

33. Nope; that would be the good strategic choice, which is why Trump won't do it...

...he'll stick with the toadying suck-up he already has.

[Maru Kitteh]

36. I think it's a fun game, but ultimately, Trump likes dudes. White dudes. Lots and lots of

very white dudes. He knows his Twitter Proud Boys would balk, and those are his peeps. They're the ones who give him his daily affirmation. The ones who fluff him up every morning on the toidy and make him feel like a real president. The ones who fuel his dreams of lifetime rule and unfettered genocide.

He would risk a certain measure of fungelical enthusiasm, given their common, inherent racist patriarchal structure, along with a fair number of shitwits (male and female) who we've seen in interviews saying that they "just didn't think it was right to have a woman in those kinds of positions."

He MUST keep all those groups to have any chance at all, (especially the Twitter Proud Boys) and they must be energized, he can't risk any deflation in their enthusiasm, at all.

This is not to say he won't let the rumor float out there for a while, hoping to get more coverage from the controversy; hoping enough muddle-headed "girls" in suburbs might be confused enough to think he really will have a female VP. - But no. Not happening.

[sandensea]

45. Sticky Nikki?

Wouldn't that annoy the Jim Crow base though?

[GulfCoast66]

46. The neo-confederates will never forgive her for taking down the southern swastika

Plus she Methodist and still honors her Sikh ancestry.

Won’t fly with the Jesus nuts.