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Why didn't he go with DeSantis?
He wants loyalty, and one that will do what Pence didn't do.
he did. JD Vance is one of those ironic punishments Olympians gave to people that pissed them off. someone with as much ability to come off as human, let alone normal, as desantis, if not less.
Because Desantis challenged him in the primary. It's as simple and petty as that.
And also remember that the VP can Amendment 25 Trump straight out of office on day one (with some help from the cabinet), and will even have a plausible reason to do so. Trump has to be paranoid about his VP pick.
The fun thing is that De Santis could Amendment 12 Trump straight out of office, as they both live in Florida.
The GOP is too scared of pissing off Trump or his base to even consider doing something like that. If they were a smart evil organization they would have dumped Trump long ago.
Trump is a useful idiot. Vance is Thiel-backed Heritage Foundation pick. As will likely most of his cabinet.
After Jan 20, regardless of which way the next 5 months go, he is useless to the GOP, Heritage, and Thiel. In fact, if anything he'd be a liability to them.
This wouldn't surprise me in the least.
That's what I thought when he lost in 2020. Yet they stuck with him anyway. Clearly they've decided they need his cult, no matter what.
First term they were flying by the seat of their pants. They were the dog that caught the car.
Second term they won't need him anymore. They've got plans. They've got courts. They've even already got some of the legislation.
Perhaps. Think about it from Trump's perspective. How much does he trust any of them?
Oh, not at all, nor should he. I just know they're too cowardly to do it.
Trump wants a pretty nonentity.
Pence looked like a 1960s TV version of a Vice President. Vance looked like someone the rural MAGoos would like.
DeSantis might actually [accidentally] tell Trump the truth...