{"id":2239253,"date":"2024-05-07T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-not-to-be-a-toxic-and-terrible-trump-running-mate\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:17:57","slug":"how-not-to-be-a-toxic-and-terrible-trump-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-not-to-be-a-toxic-and-terrible-trump-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Being a Toxic and Terrible Running Mate for Trump"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhow-not-to-be-a-toxic-and-terrible-trump-running-mate%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=2239253&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--><p>The text discusses key points on being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-veep-thoughts-with-kamala-harris-vol-7\/\" title=\"WATCH: Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 7)\">suitable running mate<\/a> for\u2064 Donald Trump, emphasizing the\u2062 need for seriousness and humility in handling media interactions\u2062 and\u2062 acknowledging the \u200cchallenges of the upcoming election. It \u2064also cautions against \u2064myths and highlights the importance of fair play amidst a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fearful-fbi-creates-special-unit-to-investigate-threats-over-taking-it-easy-on-hunter-biden-report\/\" title=\"FBI forms unit to probe threats over leniency towards Hunter Biden: Report\">contentious political climate<\/a>. The text outlines essential qualities for a potential running mate for \u200cDonald Trump, focusing on the importance of conducting oneself seriously and humbly in media \u200bengagements. \u2063It highlights \u2064the significance of \u200crecognizing the difficulties of the upcoming election, dispelling myths,\u200c and promoting fair play during a \u2064challenging political environment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>We\u2019re getting close to the party conventions, and within just the past week we\u2019ve seen three flagrant examples of the exact opposite of what Republicans hoping to be Donald Trump\u2019s running mate should be doing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what Republicans anticipate, but if it\u2019s that the next six months will be \u201cchallenging\u201d or \u201cgrueling,\u201d they haven\u2019t been paying attention. This election is going to be bloodshed. The tumult of 2020 was just a precursor. The havoc that\u2019s to come will meet Trump\u2019s pick for vice president just the same. With that in mind\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1661614266\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ac750ff72220a8189ff4eef7c683b9ce fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ac750ff72220a8189ff4eef7c683b9ce\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. <strong>Don\u2019t let your mouth write a check you can\u2019t cash<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As of this writing, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, once <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/26\/kristi-noem-would-be-a-disaster-as-donald-trumps-veep\/\">highly recommended<\/a> as a V.P. contender, is on a tour of self-humiliation, answering questions about inexplicable claims she made in a book that are either demonstrably false or bizarre to the point of psychopathy. <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/30\/in-defense-of-dog-killer-kristi-noem\/\">her autobiography<\/a>, which she almost certainly didn\u2019t write, Noem said she blasted a 14-month-old family dog with a shotgun after allowing it to run wild. Even more egregious, she claimed to have \u201cmet with\u201d North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who \u201cunderestimated me.\u201d Even starving North Koreans heard that tale and mustered the strength to say, \u201cGirl, you sound really, really dumb!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s defense of both claims, embarrassing in themselves, has been excruciating to witness. She said working on a farm means she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KristiNoem\/status\/1783849977409671483?lang=en\">has to kill animals<\/a> all the time \u2013\u00a0a perfectly healthy, though poorly trained house dog is just like a sick, old horse! \u2014\u00a0and then refused to admit that she never actually met Kim Jong Un. She would <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1787638066426880341\">only allow<\/a> that, \u201cI don\u2019t have conversations about my conversations with world leaders,\u201d while also insisting that she has asked that the book\u2019s content be amended to exclude the Kim anecdote about having been \u201cunderestimated\u201d by Kim altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans who want to sincerely help take back the White House\u2014\u00a0you won\u2019t do it by mythologizing yourselves in ways that are unserious at best, and repulsive at worst.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <strong>Always and forever reject the national media\u2019s faulty frame and premise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Doug Burgum, governor of the other Dakota, has shown promise as a potential running mate or future cabinet member in a second Trump administration. But in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliticusSarah\/status\/1787107705775120442\">an interview<\/a> with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper this past weekend, he also showed he\u2019s not yet capable of properly humbling and belittling media figures who eagerly attempt to destroy him. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-18174a0f25f84e5874b9cb190f805e89 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-18174a0f25f84e5874b9cb190f805e89\"><\/div>\n<p>Referring to recent remarks by Trump at a fundraiser, Tapper asked Burgum if he was \u201ccomfortable\u201d with the former president \u201ccomparing the Biden administration to the Gestapo.\u201d Bergum dismissed Trump\u2019s accusation as \u201ca short comment, deep into the thing that wasn\u2019t really central to what he was talking about.\u201d That is precisely the wrong way to answer an insidious question.<\/p>\n<p>The right way is to tell the dork anchor that you\u2019re just as comfortable with a Nazi Germany comparison to Biden as Tapper is with his entire network repeatedly employing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markjoyella\/2021\/01\/18\/cnns-jake-tapper-says-big-lie-of-stolen-election-was-a-virus-spread-by-maga-media\/?sh=39066c3b109e\">\u201cBig Lie\u201d phrase<\/a>, coined by Hitler to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_lie\">demonize Jews<\/a>, as a metaphor for Trump contesting the 2020 election.<em> Why, Jake, are you comfortable with using views espoused by Adolf Hitler to attack your political opposition? Jake, aren\u2019t you Jewish? Why are you okay with that type of hateful rhetoric?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Burgum made a valiant effort by pointing out the unfair application of the law to Democrats\u2019 prosecution of Trump, but that\u2019s a mistake and inadvertently legitimizes the illegality of the process. What matters is that the prosecution is politically driven, is corrosive to democracy, and is cheered on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/28\/democrats-have-a-new-joke-about-bankrupting-donald-trump-along-with-the-rest-of-america\/\">to the delight of Joe Biden<\/a> and Democrats, members of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-trans-state-senator-predicts-future-trans-president\/\" title=\"First Trans State Senator Predicts Future Trans President\">major political party<\/a> that is openly destroying the once-sacred rule of law by corrupting our legal institutions, traditions, and norms.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. <strong>Embrace the fact that this is unlikely to be a fair election and say so out loud<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In another TV interview over the weekend, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UsaFeatures\/status\/1787237337648205901\">asked multiple times<\/a> to concede Republican defeat in the 2024 race, six months before Election Day. \u201cWill you commit to accepting the election results of 2024, bottom line?\u201d asked NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96c99eaf3001d2f7fba7bcd720877229 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96c99eaf3001d2f7fba7bcd720877229\"><\/div>\n<p>Then she asked: \u201cYes or no, will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter who wins?\u201d and, \u201cJust yes or no, will you accept the election results of 2024?\u201d and, \u201cJust a yes or no answer,\u201d and, \u201cWill you commit to accepting the election results?\u201d and, \u201cWill you accept to commit to the election results in this election cycle no matter who wins?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott repeatedly said he expected Trump to win the election and wouldn\u2019t answer a \u201chypothetical.\u201d It\u2019s a response that does no particular harm but misses an indispensable opportunity to urgently confront the gravest threat to our republic\u2014\u00a0demonstrable, verifiable election rigging by Democrats, the media, and Washington. <\/p>\n<p>A more useful answer from Scott would go something like this: \u201cI\u2019m not going to preemptively concede defeat in order to make it easier for Democrats, the media, and the permanent bureaucracy to conspire and steal this election. We\u2019ve seen this playbook before. The same people rigged the 2016 election and hamstrung Trump\u2019s first term in office by spying on his campaign and falsely accusing him of being a Russian asset. The same people rigged the 2020 election by suppressing damaging information about Joe Biden, censoring information about Covid-19, and instigating a race war. That\u2019s on top of the unconstitutional court rulings that flooded the nation with illegal ballots and circumvented state legislatures in regulating their elections. I know what you\u2019re up to and there\u2019s no telling how far you\u2019ll go this time, so don\u2019t you dare ask me to accept defeat on your program before this is anywhere close to being over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t going to be easy. It\u2019s not going to be \u201chard.\u201d It\u2019s going to be a bloodbath. Republicans who can\u2019t foresee that will be better off not going on TV and not saying things they can\u2019t competently defend. And they definitely should not hope to be Donald Trump\u2019s running mate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7f8ff7072e263a427438bb0c9dd10aa5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7f8ff7072e263a427438bb0c9dd10aa5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the party conventions near, recent incidents highlight what not to do as a potential running mate for Trump. 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