He should take the gig, then during the first veep debate, throw Trump under the bus for an hour as payback for 2016.
Doubt it. He'll go for a woman because Biden has one.
I don't think he could have a woman beside him without immediately denigrating her.
Or trying to grab her by the pussy.
You can hear the first VP debate question... "How did you feel the first time you heard Trump say 'I just grab 'em by the pussy!' ?"
He'll go for a man because he wants people to look "straight out of Central casting." Pretty sure he was told Kristi Noem would be the best choice but he can't abide by a woman in power so he's throwing out ideas where he can still have a not-white-man while still definitely being a man.
Lil Marco?
If Trump is considering a home state pick for VP it's a pretty clear sign of his concern.
He’d get around the same state restriction somehow, because those kinds of rules don’t apply to him apparently.
And frankly this is probably his best option, Rubio has absolutely no spine. He’d happily abide if Trump woke up one day and decided he supported nationwide unrestricted abortion access, and told Rubio to be the face of the policy. This guy would stoop to any low, and toe whatever line Trump throws his lunch at.
There’s also the constant threat of death for whoever he lands on. He did try to have his previous VP killed after all.
~~Edit: there’s no same state restriction for president and vp~~
There is a restriction, as laid out in the article. FL electors can't vote for a ticket with two Floridians. One of them would have to change residency.
Native Floridian here. I see no downsides to this requirement. Can both go?
The president and vice president can not constitutionally come from the same state. Trump would have to move to pick Rubio.
Snopes rates this claim as Mostly False.
Nothing in the constitution bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state from running, being elected, or holding office together; it only bars the electors from their home state from voting for both of them.
Ok but it makes it so that if the election is 270 to 269 electoral votes with the Republicans winning, the VP will be Democratic VP Harris because all 30 Florida electors have to vote for Trump for president so none of them could vote for Rubio, he would get 240 electoral votes and lose to Harris who would get 269.
It's a noteworthy disadvantage even if it's not as bad as I thought originally.
It's not that they CAN'T, it's that if they did, the electoral college votes for them from Florida wouldn't count.
This came up as a reading of the 12th Amendment when people were talking about Desantis as a VP pick.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ron-desantis-running-mate-2024-1721410
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Guys I have an idea for a funny prank
I see a foam party coming on!!
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