Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal ran an Op-Ed by former Democrats for Trump creator Andrew Stein pushing the idea of replace mama’s boy Pence with former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley for the 2020 election to stave off the electoral disaster likely to strike as Trump’s support from women plummets.
The Week online news forum thinks Haley cannot save him.
“The Wall Street Journal printed an op-ed from Andrew Stein — he started the “Democrats for Trump” group in 2016 — urging the president to dump Mike Pence as his vice president and add Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, to the Republican ticket as his running mate in 2020.
Stein’s reasoning: Haley could help Trump attract “moderate, suburban women” he’ll need to win re-election.
“Nikki Haley on the ticket could tamp down the antipathy for Mr. Trump that seems to afflict so many moderate and Republican-leaning women,” Stein wrote. “President Trump needs the prospect of a Vice President Haley to help recapture the White House…”
…Haley can’t save Trump because he’s already deeply unpopular with women: He won just 41 percent of women’s votes in 2016. And his Oval Office tenure so far has seen the GOP shed even that meager support — women Republicans have defected from the party, and their numbers in the House dropped from 23 to 13 in the recent midterm elections.
“The suburban women that I represent are definitely turned off by the president,” one of the defectors, Kansas State Rep. Stephanie Clayton (D), said late last year.
You see, Mr. Stein, when you have a Presidential Candidate who basically admits that he only rapes women that are pretty enough to deserve his raping, ravening attentions no amount of window dressing is gonna convince “suburban” or any other demographic of women outside of his butt-crazy cult of evangelicals and open racists to support him.
Haley would be wise to sit this one out and avoid the ETTD (Everything Trump touches dies) disease.
She was smart enough to distance herself from the rapist soon after his odious ascension, will she continue to show good sense?
Or will her party, caring only about it’s own lust for power, demand she sacrifice herself to try,unsuccessfully, to drag the fat rapist loser across the finish line?
What say you, Rupert?
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I think Haley stayed too long in the administration and did not have a stellar record with the UN. If he picks a woman, his only choice would be Ivanka.
Yeah, she’s sitting this one out. Being Trump’s UN ambassador was tough enough.
They tried this move already. Anyone remember Sarah Palin? That backfired bigly. Haley is somewhat less of a dolt than Palin, although the only reason anyone is promoting this hack for anything is because Republicans are so desperate for women to showcase.
Trump doesn’t need Haley. He’ll have Professor Warren. I’ll predict right now if she is our nominee he sails to a second term. I’ll eat a murder of crows if I’m wrong (and I have been before, massively) but dear God … doesn’t anyone realize what this country has become? And when she loses, will the massive crowds of “Democrats need a progressive to vote forrrr!” types finally give it up? Yeah I’m a crank and I get it; sorry. But we need to win and calling every damned white man a slimebag for being one, and warning against the horror of a milquetoast Joe Biden, is gonna get us beat. The electorate is NOT as we wish it to be. And as for Biden, yeah, I get it too, to a point. But here’s the thing: whipping his bony ass for statements about Stennis and ‘keep the boys away from your sister’ illustrates why too many people laugh at liberals and vote for Trump. And “crime bill!” is a favorite of mine also. Yet Biden seems to have pretty good support among black voters, and to dump on him basically says to them, “Hey … wake up and listen to us, the privileged white folks! We know best!” Not a good look. Like 2016 when black women in the south — our best voters — went overwhelmingly for HRC to a chorus of “yeah but those are the ‘slave states’ that will never vote D in the general!” from Bernie fans. Also a pretty terrible look for such ‘woke’ folks …
I’ll keep the crow handy, Nick. Recent events tell me that just about ANYBODY in the Dem primaries is a serious contender against Trump..
I don’t think anyone wants to run with trump, except pence, he is a two faced idiot himself.