Numerous credible surveys indicate that former President Donald Trump is the front-runner for the GOP candidacy in 2024. Unless anything unexpected happens, his route to obtaining the nomination is very assured.
Now, a critical issue emerges: if Trump wins the nomination, who will he select to run beside him?
Twelve prominent Republicans, including Trump aides, were interviewed for the Messenger report, which presents a whittled down list of prospective running partners for Trump in 2024.
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Rumor has it that President Trump is thinking about selecting one of two well-known female contenders to be his running mate and vice president. Among the leading candidates are reportedly House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and Republican governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem.
Trump has reportedly shown increased interest in Noem, a governor of conservative states who is highly regarded and has aggressively backed the president.
In a recent interview with the streaming network Real America’s Voice, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem talked about a variety of subjects, including her potential selection as former President Trump’s running mate.
“Well, there’s a lot of people they’re talking about for vice president… I have long supported President Trump; he had his priorities right when he was leading this country,” Noem said.
At a September campaign rally in her state, Noem gave her support to Trump, according to CNN, “fueling speculation about the role the Republican governor may play in his third bid for the White House.”
“I think she’s fantastic,” Trump remarked in an interview in mid-September about her. “She’s been a great governor. She gave me a very full-throated endorsement—a beautiful endorsement, actually. It’s been a very good state for me, and certainly, she would be one of the people I would consider, or for something else, maybe. We have a lot of great people in the Republican Party.”
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Stefanik, a fervent follower of President Trump, has quickly ascended to the position of fourth-ranking Republican in the chamber. This major development came about as a result of the GOP conference last year removing Trump opponent and former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney from office.
The former president’s civil fraud trial is being overseen by Manhattan Superior Court Judge Arthur Engoron, whom Stefanik (R-N.Y.) criticized last month, claiming “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance” in a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
According to Stefanik, Judge Engoron’s “bizarre behavior has no place in our judicial system, where Judge Engoron is not honoring the defendant’s rights to due process and a fair trial,” stating that such “serious concerns” are heightened by Trump’s status as the front-runner in the GOP presidential race in 2024.
Axios sources state that former first lady Melania Trump has given an intriguing recommendation regarding her husband’s running mate: Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News star.
“Here’s an interesting twist: Melania Trump is an advocate for picking Tucker Carlson, the booted Fox News star. She thinks Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband, a source close to Trump told us. The former first lady has made few campaign appearances this time around, but a Trump-Carlson ticket might encourage her to hit the trail,” the outlet reported.
Axios added, “However, many people close to Trump have dismissed the idea of Tucker Carlson because they believe he would never choose someone who could surpass him. And Trump’s staff is convinced (correctly) that Carlson can’t be controlled. But the two men talk a lot.”
New York Times writer Maggie Haberman talked on the possibility that, should the former president be reelected, he may assemble a close-knit group of followers for his new government in a recent episode of The Dispatch Podcast. Host Jamie Weinstein questioned Carlson on the reports that he could choose to become Trump’s vice president throughout the interview. Haberman offered her opinions on the subject.
“It’s a real thing that I am hearing as a possibility,” Haberman said. “The likelihood of it, I don’t know. I think there will be a pretty professional vetting process, honestly. I know that might sound unbelievable based on what we’ve seen from Trump historically, but Trump’s current political team is the best—at least as a non-incumbent—that he’s had, and there’s just a different level of control.”
Haberman kept talking about Carlson as a possible Trump vice presidential candidate, but she pointed out that “the risk with Tucker Carlson and Trump is that Tucker Carlson’s a very big star in his own right, and I’m not sure how Trump would contend with that.”
Late last year, Trump said he would be willing to explore Carlson as a possible running mate in a statement.
“I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would,” Trump stated, appearing on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “I think I’d say I would because he’s got great common sense. You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative — it’s not that we’re conservative; we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall because walls work.”
