{"id":1946004,"date":"2023-06-06T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-asked-point-blank-if-hed-make-desantis-his-vp-in-2024-heres-what-he-said\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:02:08","slug":"trump-gets-asked-point-blank-if-hed-make-desantis-his-vp-in-2024-heres-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-asked-point-blank-if-hed-make-desantis-his-vp-in-2024-heres-what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asked if DeSantis would be his VP in 2024 &#8211; his response."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-gets-asked-point-blank-if-hed-make-desantis-his-vp-in-2024-heres-what-he-said%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump All But Rules Out Alliance with Rival DeSantis for VP<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has addressed the possibility of selecting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-pass-bill-critics-say-defunds-police-and-reject-proposal-to-condemn-calls-to-abolish-police\/\" title=\"Democrats Pass Bill Critics Say Defunds Police And Reject Proposal To Condemn Calls To \u2018Abolish\u2019 Police\">vice presidential running mate<\/a> in a Monday radio episode of the Todd Starnes Show, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/trump-on-desantis-as-vp-pick-pretty-unlikely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u2019s Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Trump tells Todd Starnes Show it is highly unlikely that he will pick DeSantis as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like saying anything is like, impossible, but it\u2019s pretty unlikely I would think,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddstarnes\/status\/1665823083884605443?\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While declining to completely close the door on the idea, Trump all but ruled out the possibility of an alliance with his biggest rival for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis\u2019 Challenge May Have Cost Him a Chance at VP<\/h3>\n<p>Trump suggested that DeSantis\u2019 decision to challenge him for the Republican nomination may have cost him a chance to receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-asked-point-blank-if-hed-make-desantis-his-vp-in-2024-heres-what-he-said\/\" title=\"Trump asked if DeSantis would be his VP in 2024 - his response.\">vice presidential nod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very surprised that he did,\u201d Trump said, per Florida\u2019s Voice, of the governor\u2019s decision to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout that, it would have been a distinct possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly taken credit for DeSantis\u2019 election as governor of Florida, suggesting he is responsible for his rival\u2019s political career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, Rob DeSanctimonious came to me asking for help. He was losing badly, by 31 points, to popular Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam,\u201d Trump said of DeSantis\u2019 2018 gubernatorial campaign in a May <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110423329573089787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth Social<\/a> message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 3 LARGE TRUMP RALLIES, he WON THE GENERAL ELECTION in an upset. DISLOYAL!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis Criticizes Trump\u2019s Name-Calling<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis has proved more willing to criticize Trump\u2019s tendency to address him with nicknames since announcing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a>, doing so in a Thursday New Hampshire radio broadcast, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/desantis-sounds-off-on-petty-trump-name-calling-says-he-alienated-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u2019s Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s so petty. I think it\u2019s so juvenile,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s what voters want, and honestly, I think that his conduct, which he\u2019s been doing for years now, I think that\u2019s one of the reasons he\u2019s not in the White House now.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Constitutional Obstacle for Trump-DeSantis Ticket<\/h3>\n<p>If Trump wins the Republican nomination and eyes DeSantis as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-gov-ron-desantis-becoming-major-voice-for-gop\/\" title=\"Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis becoming major voice for GOP\">potential vice presidential pick<\/a>, there would be an obscure constitutional obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>Electoral College voters from Florida would be barred from voting for a Trump-DeSantis presidential ticket \u2014 in the event they were both running as citizens of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Article II of the Constitution requires electors to vote for one person who is not from their home state, jeopardizing Florida\u2019s Electoral College votes in such a scenario, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/can-the-president-and-vice-president-be-from-the-same-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Former President Donald Trump has all but ruled out an alliance with his biggest rival for the Republican nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as his vice presidential running mate. Trump suggested that DeSantis\u2019 decision to challenge him for the Republican nomination may have cost him a chance to receive a vice presidential nod. If Trump wins the Republican nomination and eyes DeSantis as a potential vice presidential pick, there would be an obscure constitutional obstacle. Electoral College voters from Florida would be barred from voting for a Trump-DeSantis presidential ticket \u2014 in the event they were both running as citizens of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>possibility of teaming up with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as his running mate for the next presidential election, as reported by Florida&#8217;s Voice. The former President made the statement during a radio interview on Monday&#8217;s Todd Starnes Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1946006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[4506,4980,4115,3618,3634],"class_list":["post-1946004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-4506","tag-desantis","tag-response","tag-riot","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}