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October 9, 2021 — Steven Hayward
It’s obvious that if Trump runs again in 2024, he should name “Brandon” as his running mate, so rally crowds can yell “Let’s go Brandon!” This is better than shouting the vernacular version, and the media will be totally flummoxed having to explain it over and over again. Meanwhile, did Facebook have the worst week ever, or what? Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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August 12, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Following up on Daniel Pipes’s satirical suggestion of help for Joe Biden, Biden’s staff appears to have provided him a script for yesterday’s phone call to Kamala Harris. The Federalist’s Tristan Justice provides an account including Sean Davis’s tweet immediately below. Biden's staff had to write a script for him so he'd know why he was even talking to Kamala Harris. "I'm calling you today because…" pic.twitter.com/9iUMnVzmtZ — Sean Davis
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October 4, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
I don’t believe a vice presidential debate has ever influenced the outcome of an election. The most consequential ones have, however, stopped the bleeding afterthe presidential candidate flopped in his first debate. Vice President Cheney’s performance against John Edwards in 2004 is the best example. But one could also cite George H.W. Bush in 1984 (against Geraldine Ferraro) and perhaps Joe Biden in 2012 (against Paul Ryan). Donald Trump flopped
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October 11, 2012 — John Hinderaker
My only comment about tonight’s debate: remember when lots of conservatives were hoping that Paul Ryan and others would get into the race so that we could have a strong, effective, conservative candidate rather than the weak Mitt Romney? Right. Here is the poll; how did tonight’s debate go? UPDATE: I thought Paul Ryan’s performance was highly disappointing. He came across as weak and submissive. There were many opportunities for
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August 13, 2012 — John Hinderaker
No surprise there: as we have often said, vice-presidential candidates generally have little impact on voter preferences. Thus, the Gallup Poll currently has Obama and Romney tied at 46%/46%, while in Rasmussen’s likely voter survey, with two-thirds of the polling conducted after Romney’s announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate, Romney continues to lead Obama 47%/44%. So Ryan’s selection has had no measurable positive or negative impact so far.
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August 8, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
NBC News declares, “with a high degree of confidence that Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick has largely come down to three men: former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.” NBC News adds that “it’s more than possible that Romney has already made up his mind.” I’m not sure how a list “largely” comes down to three men; the use of that term
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August 8, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Karl Rove tells Fox News that Mitt Romney is “close to a decision” on a running mate. Rove predicts that the announcement will come next week, but adds that “it could come as early as Friday.” I’d be reasonably satisfied with any of the folks whose names I’ve seen on the “short lists” that get bandied about. That includes, in no particular order, Rob Portman, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Paul
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July 27, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Rudy Giuliani has told a Florida television station that he believes Sen. Marco Rubio would be Mitt Romney’s best pick for his running mate. Giuliani made it clear that he is comfortable with all of the potential VP candidates being widely talked about. However, he favors Rubio, citing his believe that the Florida Senator would help attract young voters. The youth vote angle is one I haven’t heard mentioned in
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July 17, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Some time in the next month, Mitt Romney likely will tell us who his running mate is. When within that time frame we’ll get such an announcement, who knows. Who is on the short list? Jim Geraghty believes that “barring some surprise, completely under-the-radar choice, the list is (in alphabetical order) Ayotte, Jindal, Pawlenty, Portman, Ryan, Rubio and Thune.” With the possible exception of Ayotte’s inclusion, that sounds about right.
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August 20, 2008 — John Hinderaker
Based on information about the schedule for speakers at the Republican convention, I believe that McCain’s choice for Vice-President has come down to Tim Pawlenty or Tom Ridge. Or possibly Charlie Crist, but I’m pretty sure he’s out of the picture. If my inference is right–and it’s only an inference–I’m pretty sure Pawlenty will be the choice. Things are going well for McCain right now and he should be optimistic
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August 3, 2008 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press reports that Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor, chief deputy minority whip, is being considered as a running mate by John McCain. Cantor has a lot of advantages. He is admired by conservatives, is from Virginia, and would connect McCain to the high-energy conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives. Cantor would be an effective spokesman on energy, taxes and other issues that are important to the party’s base.
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March 11, 2008 — John Hinderaker
Fred Barnes makes a surprisingly persuasive case–surprising to me, anyway–for the proposition that Mitt Romney is the obvious choice to be John McCain’s running mate. Barnes argues from the proposition that the Veep needs mostly to satisfy two criteria: that he be a plausible President, and that he do no harm to the ticket. Coincidentally, Politico notes that, in an interview that will air tonight, Romney told Sean Hannity that
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February 26, 2008 — Paul Mirengoff
Byron York argues that John McCain has a problem when it comes to selecting a running mate because if he chooses a solid conservative, he’ll have a running mate who disagrees with him on some key issues. York shows that two frequently mentioned prospects for the ticket, Tim Pawlenty and Mark Sanford, have strongly disagreed with McCain on immigration and campaign finance reform. However, Pawlenty, perhaps the more likely of
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April 6, 2004 — Scott Johnson
Dear readers, the Boston Globe is catching the fever: “For Kerry aides, McCain would fit bill as running mate.”
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April 4, 2004 — Scott Johnson
Reading Adam Nagourney’s New York Times article on John Kerry’s selection of a running mate strongly suggests to me that John McCain will emerge as Kerry’s selection. Combine Nagourney’s article today with Thursday’s Times article by Katherine Q. Seelye on sentiment among voters regarding Kerry’s potential running mates as reflected in polling on the subject, and the suggestion has the force of a logical conclusion to me. My impression is
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April 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Biden’s HHS boss Xavier Becerra misses California and might want to run for governor, Katy Grimes of the California Globe reports. In his current post, Becerra “doubled down on tyrannical COVID policies, including mandatory masking and vaccines for everyone including pregnant women and infants, as well as business and school lockdowns.” Before that, Becerra, was “up to his eyeballs” in a scandal that started when the DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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February 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is all over but the shouting in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, so it is reasonable for attention to turn to Donald Trump’s choice of a running mate. As Trump himself has pointed out, vice presidential picks generally have little or no impact on presidential races. Still, given the advanced age of the prospective nominees, voters might pay a little more attention than usual to their choices
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