OH, GOD, IS TRUMP GOING TO MAKE IVANKA HIS 2024 RUNNING MATE?
Mike Pence spent four years slavishly devoted to Donald Trump, save for a brief moment in which he politely declined to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In return, Trump nearly got his V.P. killed by a violent mob and then praised the people chanting, “Hang Mike Pence,” telling them, “We love you,“ and, “You’re very special.” Later Pence refused to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, aired nary a grievance re: his boss siccing a bloodthirsty horde on him, and, just this week, authored an op-ed in which he suggested that the election was stolen from Trump and that the events of January 6 were not the ex-president‘s fault.
In return, you might have expected Trump to call Pence up and say something like, “Thanks for always having my back, and hey, sorry about almost getting you lynched,” or, hell, even pretend to still find the guy politically useful. Unfortunately for Pence, he hitched his wagon to the wrong unhinged megalomaniac, and instead, his old boss’s handlers have made it known he’s out in MAGA-land.
Bloomberg reports that Trump “is telling allies he’s strongly considering another run for president in 2024—and close advisers want him to choose someone other than former vice president Mike Pence for his ticket, according to people familiar with the discussions.” According to reporters Jennifer Jacobs, Mario Parker, and Mark Niquette, Trump has privately discussed alternatives to Pence “as he takes stock of who he believes stood with him at the end of his term and who didn’t.” In other words, Pence followed the Constitution for, like, a second in between nothing short of slobbering canine loyalty and has thus been deemed a traitorous shrew.
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As New York’s Ed Kilgore points out, though, it’s also possible that Trump could try to keep it in the family in 2024, pretending to consider Ivanka, Don Jr., and “budding politician Lara” before going with the only adult child he’s ever loved, who no doubt sees herself as the obvious choice. (Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have reportedly been plotting to make her the first woman president for several years now, so presumably she’d see this as a logical stepping stone.)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-2024-vp
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Ivanka has experience in dealing with world leaders.
