I think Trump has already offered Haley the VP spot.

[Cattledog]

That is why she came out with her statement today.

[hlthe2b]

1. Given she is still garnering around 20% of vote in a lot of state primaries....

that is not unlikely...

[lame54]

19. Those aren't her votes...

Those are anti-trump votes

Adding her to the ticket won't bring them back

[Botany]

51. + 1

Those voters who are still voting for Haley aren’t showing their support for her but
are showing deep anti-Trump feelings.

I think Nikki believes that Trump’s criminal and civil crimes will stop his run for
President. She is manipulative shit.

[Garden Grove]

2. She didn't come out with a statement.

She was doing a Q&A with the Hudson Institute and the moderator asked her about who she felt would do a better job on the national security issues and that's where she said she would vote Trump.

[onecaliberal]

13. You know, the guy who gave all our national security secrets to Russia.

[Garden Grove]

15. It's even worse than that (well maybe equally bad)...

...she went out of her way to say that we need a president who will stand up for our allies and stand up to our adversaries. How is that Trump? He wants to do a way with NATO. He's actively willing to cede Ukraine to Russia. She's a hypocrite.

[onecaliberal]

18. Nope, serial liar. She knows what she is doing she wants power.

She knows the rapist is going to die soon. He’s not well. Then wahla, Nimrata is potus.

[Garden Grove]

20. I don't think he'll ever pick her.

I think the campaign wants him to pick her but he doesn't and he'll veto any chance.

1. The second he picks her, the media and Democrats will run on loop all the awful comments she's said about him over the last four years. He'll be asked about those comments. It'll be 100x worse than what we saw with Biden-Harris when Harris was selected. His ego won't handle that.

2. He can't trust her. Trump wants a yes-man, someone who will have his back no matter what. Haley hasn't had his back no matter what. Tim Scott? Vivek? They have - not Haley. If he says he wants to nuke Greenland, he expects his VP to say, "great idea, Sir!" and maybe Haley would but I don't think Trump trusts she would. He also doesn't want someone like Mike Pence again and Haley is closer to Pence than any of the other candidates.

My guess is that the campaign has done polling and the traditional campaign apparatus has determined Haley is their best path forward and without her, they are potentially in trouble. But Trump has to sign off on it and I don't think he can be convinced to select her. Trump won't pick someone he can't trust, who has a serious record of bad-mouthing him and will be seen as a pick to boost his chances (he would never concede he needed the help of anyone).

[LudwigPastorius]

36. I'm thinking he'll pick Kristi Noem, despite her dog killing ways.

Simply because, of all the female VP candidates, she looks the most like Melania and/or a FOX News "reporter".

[Wednesdays]

55. What is "wahla?"

I think you mean "voilà," which is French for "there it is."

[FSogol]

32. What's the f'ing difference? She's just another puke.

[Garden Grove]

33. I mean it changes the narrative of the whole post. That's the difference.

I don't think this has anything to do with her being Trump's running-mate. She was at a forum and answered a question. She didn't proactively release a statement, which I agree with the OP, could suggest she's cozying up to being Trump's running-mate or a deal has been struck.

I don't think she'll be his running-mate.

[unblock]

3. Donnie is always transactional. So my guess is he dangled it in front of her

And said prove you can be a good toadie and maybe I'll give it to you.

But I'm with you that they talked about it, I don't think this just randomly came out of the blue.

[ificandream]

52. I think it's already decided to give it to her.

[getagrip_already]

4. doubtful, just imho...

he wants millions from her. he always wants abject humiliation. he has to be seen as the alpha dog where your loss is his gain. not just the top dog - the only dog standing.

If he cant pee into your mouth in public while wiping sand in your eyes and make you thank him and say it was the best you ever tasted, he isn't happy and will find something worse.

She knows that. I don't think she wants any part of it. Plus, she senses he will lose, and then there will be more indictments and more shit for years.

She just wants his base, or what she can get of what's left of the gop that still aligns with him. She wants 2028, or 2032, or whenever he finally drools himself into oblivion.

He will go either with vance, or with Ivanka. I'm thinking Ivanka will be the daark horse here. She is slowly being brought back to life and is in surprising strong shape from a public perception standpoint. He doesn't have to worry about her. And she doesn't have a thing to fear from him.

[karynnj]

11. If that were in the cards, the Kushners would not have moved to Florida

They lose the Florida delegates for one of offices.

[getagrip_already]

12. They both still have an apartment in nyc...

All the kids have apts owned by the trump org. I doubt they sold princess's pad when she moved to florida. She likely maintains an address there.

Just like cheney had a hunting cabin in montana, they have a second address they can shuffle off to. They probably still have an apartment in DC or Maryland as well. I doubt they sold that when tsf left office. And they probably have an apartment in chicago as well. Why not. It's a tax deduction.

Not an insurmountable problem.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Yes. Nikki only cares about Nikki.

Haley has always been an opportunist, who will sell her own soul if it will put her ahead.. Like she did when she gave up her governorship to for that UN ambassador job. She's positioning herself for 2028, which means staying in the relative good graces of what is left of her party. If it means ingratiating herself to those lunatics, she has no problem doing so. She is, and has always been as phony as a three dollar bill.

As for the VP spot, I agree it's FAR more likely to be Vance. I can't see any woman getting the slot, including Haley or Ivanka, though. Too many misogynists in that party.

[NanaCat]

42. Ivanka is now a FL resident, like he is

Creates a problem with those EC votes.

Also, she brings nothing to the ticket that will help him. It might make him feel good, but nobody except the most entrenched of his base wants an idiot like her anywhere near the WH.

[getagrip_already]

46. She has a new york residence still....

All Cheney had was a hunting lodge. Not a problem.

Remember who tsf is. He doesn't need anything from a running mate except obedience.

And his ego would love seeing his name on posters twice.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I wonder if those personalities who were vying for the VP slot

will still support Trump if they're not selected.

[msongs]

6. she has a body part trump wants nnt

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yep. My thoughts as well.

Smart move on Trump's part.
She brings in the votes.

[Attilatheblond]

29. Aaaannnnddddd, she will do the actual work he has an aversion to even pretending to do

'Let the woman do it' is not hard to imagine him saying.

[Irish_Dem]

44. Trump is lazy. Yes she will do the heavy lifting.

[Celerity]

53. Her primary votes are far more anti Trump votes than pro Haley votes.

She was just the last one standing, so acted as a catchment for l'eau de la haine pour Trump.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I think Trump is playing her like Romney in 2016

[Irish_Dem]

45. Yes this is possible too. Haley is too smart a move for Trump.

He has not been making any smart moves lately.

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. I agree. She is pulling votes from him in the

primaries. He has no choice. He is all in and she is a big part of winning.

[applegrove]

10. Sounds logical.

[Freethinker65]

14. He will treat her like he did Romney.

He will say she came crawling and begging with tears in her eyes pledging her devotion to him, being smarter than everyone, he cleverly decided to use her for a bit then will eventually revert to calling her Nimrod and a two timing not to be trusted snake and will banish her away.

[SarahD]

16. She would be foolish to do it.

If she attaches herself to him and they lose, that's the end for her. Even if they win, many people like her because she is the non-Trump standout among all the other ass kissers, and she would lose that. Being his veep would be difficult for her and she would risk being identified with his extremism.

[ALBliberal]

21. She has attached herself. Done. And

Her voters will follow. VP or not. He called her Bird Brain. Put her husband’s military service reputation in the toilet. She still follows. I have no understanding of these people. But I do think moral compass is not in their vernacular.

[TSExile]

17. His magat base hates women, Blacks, Latinos, AAPI...

...and they'll turn against the orange diarrhea stain on humanity unless he chooses a milquetoast white guy who is even more pathetic and spineless than Pence. I predict he'll go with someone I am ashamed to say is from my home state of Ohio...Vance.

[Raven123]

22. I think there is something like this going on behind the scenes

[tblue37]

23. Kinda what I was thinking. He needs her voters.

[Bristlecone]

24. I'd be shocked if she was not his pick

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

26. I'd be double shocked if he picked Scott. Scott wants it sooo badly

[ecstatic]

25. then she is a sucker because he's not picking her. Period.

[Bev54]

28. Oh I think he would pick her, he needs her voters more. His supporters will forgive him

they are not going anywhere and he knows it.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

31. Her voters

voted against him.

[Bev54]

41. Yeah and I doubt they will go to him but he is too stupid to understand that.

But he will not lose his voters by doing that and everyone else he may have seriously thought about has shot themselves in the foot or have shown themselves to be complete idiots that even he could not tolerate, so she is about all he has left.

[NanaCat]

43. She could cost him votes

With the most racist and misogynistic of his base, and they are not a small number.

[Bev54]

54. I really doubt it, they will stick with him no matter what.

[Bev54]

27. I think you may be right. He wants her voters.

[Kaleva]

38. Or Nikki wants his voters

If Trump is forced out of the race, she'll most likely end up being the nominee.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

30. If you're right and she trusts him to keep his word

she's in for a rude awakening.

He's got 3 or 4 more months of grifting and groveling from the other saps, he won't give away the game this early.

I don't think he will choose her. His narcissistic baby booboo ego won't permit it.

[videohead5]

34. I don't think so

She will overshadow Trump. That's why Trump will never pick her.

[Kaleva]

37. She may be thinking Trump will be forced out of the race

and she's hedging her bets with the Magahats who she needs in order to have any chance of beating Biden.

[Hekate]

39. Nah. He just dangles the prospect to a buncha people to see if they'll do what he wants...

Hubby thinks she’s counting on invoking the 25th Amendment and becoming POTUS herself. It’s possible that all the potential candidates are, as TSF is decaying before our eyes.

[tirebiter]

40. Major Haley will have an opinion on this.

[maxrandb]

47. No, we will know that she's in the VP "hunt"

When she shows up at the NYC Courthouse in a dark suit and red tie.

[Chakaconcarne]

48. Or more like she's waiting in the wings for when he's carted off to prison

[shrike3]

49. Has she stated that the 2020 election was stolen?

If not, he has not offered it to her.

[Ping Tung]

50. Maybe. But, I think that another cabinet seat would be enough to get her in his lap.