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Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick

www.nbcnews.com Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick

The shortlist remains on the long side. But the senator from Florida is gaining traction, six sources told NBC News.

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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.
  
  Kari Lake would take it, say thank you, and kiss the hand.
  
  Or trying to grab her 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
  
  ...
  
  Guys I have an idea for a funny prank
I see a foam party coming on!!
Welp, good thing I'm voting third party again. Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich doesn't need my help.
- Donald Trump thanks you for your support.
  
  Well, I don't support him in the least. But you think I do, so there's that.
- That is a choice to support the only insurrectionist in the race, which is probably the point of your comment to begin with.
  
  I have a truly earnest question: do you think the trolley problem has an obviously correct answer?
  
  I see so many people who are just flabbergasted (or unwilling to believe, as above) that people can see that trump is worse, but still not want to vote for Biden.
  
  That is a choice to support the only insurrectionist in the race, which is probably the point of your comment to begin with.
  
  there is no insurrectionist candidate, except maybe cornel west, but i'd say he's more black nationalist.
  
  I don't support either. Both have abysmal track records.
- Third party is typically a vote for Republicans. I'm not sure why democrats never seem to put up a plant 3rd party. Just get some Uber Ultra Instinct racist and that peel of at least 10% of the Trump voters.
  
  Third party is typical a vote for Republicans.
  
  a so-called third party vote is a vote for the so-called third party.
  
  That's your narrative, sure. I won't support a two-party system that produces such TERRIBLE candidates anymore.
- Don’t vote third party in the general. You know exactly who that helps.
  
  If the Dems actually believed Trump were a threat to democracy, and that fundamental liberties would be lost, they wouldn’t be running a man clearly in decline with a running mate who has zero constituency and an even lower approval rating.
  
  The DNC and web scolds don’t get to bitch about third-party voters, when they obviously assessed the situation and thought, “This is fine.”
  
  If the Dems can’t be arsed to respond seriously to Trump, the rest of us are under no obligation to fix their wagon.
- lol- a presidential third-party 'protest vote'. Like flat earth- there's always some sucker that believes in it.
  
  I vote third-party down ballot where it can make a difference, but voting for a third party presidential candidate with zero chances is about as effective as setting your hair on fire and yelling "ME MAD AT GOVERNMENT!". Funny either way though ;)

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