{"id":15876,"date":"2024-02-22T06:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/trump-reveals-vp-shortlist-includes-desantis-scott-ramaswamy-noem-donalds-gabbard\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:47:21","slug":"trump-reveals-vp-shortlist-includes-desantis-scott-ramaswamy-noem-donalds-gabbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/trump-reveals-vp-shortlist-includes-desantis-scott-ramaswamy-noem-donalds-gabbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reveals VP shortlist includes DeSantis, Scott, Ramaswamy, Noem, Donalds, Gabbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"paywall has-gated-overlay gated-article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"> Former President Trump indicated that at least a half a dozen contenders \u2014 including three former rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination \u2014 are on his shortlist for running mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The commanding frontrunner for the GOP nomination had plenty of praise for one of those potential candidates who joined Trump at Fox News town hall on Tuesday in this upstate South Carolina city.<\/p>\n<p>During the program, which ran on Fox News\u2019 \u2018The Ingraham Angle,\u2019 Trump was asked about half a dozen potential running mate choices: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democrat turned independent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Are they all on your shortlist?\u2019 host Laura Ingraham asked the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They are,\u2019 Trump answered. \u2018Honestly, all of those people are good. They\u2019re all good, they\u2019re all solid.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Trump has a history of making comments off the cuff, and many in the political world see DeSantis as Trump\u2019s running mate as a stretch, since the two and their camps blasted each other for over a year before the Florida governor suspended his 2024 campaign last month just ahead of the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis endorsed Trump at the time but has not joined him on the campaign trail in the ensuing weeks. In fact, DeSantis was also in South Carolina on Tuesday for an official event and did not team up with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, who has long been a strong supporter of Trump\u2019s America First agenda, dropped his White House bid last month after the Iowa caucuses and endorsed the former president. He has teamed up with Trump multiple times since then and campaigned on behalf of Trump in South Carolina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, suspended his presidential bid in November and enthusiastically endorsed Trump in New Hampshire last month. He has also joined the former president on the campaign trail in South Carolina the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Scott \u2014 as he arrived at the Greenville Convention Center \u2014 received a warm welcome from the large crowd of mostly Trump supporters in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A lot of people are talking about that gentleman right over there,\u2019 Trump said, as he pointed to Scott, who was sitting in the front row of the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s been such a great advocate. I have to say this in a very positive way, Tim Scott, he has been much better for me than he was for himself. I watched his campaign, and he doesn\u2019t like talking about himself. But, boy, does he talk about Trump,\u2019 the former president said of Scott. \u2018I called him and I said, \u2018Tim, you\u2019re better for me than you were for yourself.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Of the other three on the list that Trump acknowledged, the conservative Noem is a longtime strong Trump supporter and surrogate, as is Donalds, a Black congressman on the right who is a top Trump ally in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, who served in the Iraq War and ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, became increasingly critical of her party after she left Congress. Two years ago, Gabbard became an independent and has become a favorite among conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump town hall was held four days before Saturday\u2019s Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, where polls indicate Trump maintains a very large double-digit lead over his last remaining major rival \u2014 former U.N. ambassador and former Palmetto State Gov. Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, in a speech in Greenville a couple of hours before Trump landed in the city, said that \u2018some of you \u2014 perhaps a few of you in the media \u2014 came here today to see if I\u2019m dropping out of the race. Well, I\u2019m not. Far from it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I refuse to quit. South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I\u2019ll still be running for president. I\u2019m not going anywhere,\u2019 Haley emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>She added that \u2018I have no fear of Trump\u2019s retribution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Haley\u2019s comments, Trump said during the Fox News town hall that \u2018you\u2019re not supposed to lose your home state. It shouldn\u2019t happen anyway, and she\u2019s losing it bigly.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t think she knows how to get out,\u2019 Trump surmised. \u2018She just can\u2019t get herself to get out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated that he has ruled out Haley as his running mate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump indicated that at least a half a dozen contenders \u2014 including three former rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination \u2014 are on his shortlist for running mate. 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