VP MTG?

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attends a rally held by Donald Trump in Ohio on November 7, 2022. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.)

On Wednesday morning NBC rocked the chatterati by reporting that the most prominent crank in the House GOP caucus, Marjorie Taylor Greene, aspires to be Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024.

Count me among those who were surprised. I’d already penciled her in as a future attorney general. 

But the astonished reaction to the news threw me for another reason, namely that it’s not actually news. Journalist Robert Draper has been getting an earful about Greene’s vice presidential ambitions straight from the horse’s mouth for nearly a year. In October, the New York Times published this excerpt from his new book about MAGA populists building influence in Congress.

Two months into 2022 — barely over a year into her career as an elected official — Greene told me that she and the former president had already discussed the possibility of her being his running mate in 2024.

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    Matt Hannon

    I think in some unspoken way people have figured out that it actually doesn't matter to them who ends up winning the white house because. They would rather be entertained than governed. They want to be on a team but not one that isn't very different from the other team.
    Information is the new recreation. It is a fast-moving game with lots of sneaky plays and it's hard to keep up with because of (anti-)social media. We all like a fun challenging game don't we? Doesn't matter who wins it's how you play the game, so we have been told.
    Furthermore, it is reported frequently that church attendance is down in the US. Is it really though? Or have Americans just started going to a different church-the Church of Social Media Values and Entertainment?

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  2. Donnybrook

    At this point in Trump's meltdown in front of our eyes, is MTG any worse than him?

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    JDW

    The upside of an MTG choice as running mate is that it makes Trump less likely to win and it eliminates her from congress. So it could turn out really well. Of course the unthinkable could happen and Trump win. Personally I think his chances are slim to none. But that isn't zero.

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    1. Gfile

      Didn’t Paul Ryan get to run for both and stay in Congress when he lost VP? I hope you’re right but I fear this wouldn’t be enough to get her out of Congress.

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  4. John

    You crave a Trump - Green ticket? Ho Ho Ho. Me too. It’s the definition of crazy. We need a good psychiatric hospital to help us.

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  5. Goatprairie

    Kristi Noem? Speaking as an avowed male chauvinist pig....YESSIR!!!! What a babe. She 's too much of Trump a**-kisser for my tastes, but she sure is great to look at.
    If Trump should "unfortunately" keel over in office or be hauled off to the insane asylum where he belongs, she could be president. Win-win.
    But this guessing about his running mate avoids the bigger problem: he can't win. Since the 2020 post-election debacle he's not only lost a sizable percentage of people who voted for him twice (like me), he's lost the moderates and fence-sitters.
    In short, he's toxic except for the base. And the base by itself can't win it for him.
    As it stands, if the Dem aren't totally crazy and put up their own loony candidates (Biden, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg) they should beat a Trump-whoever ticket by 10 to 20 million popular votes.
    No more Trump whoever he chooses as his veep pick is my position.

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    Cdombek

    It’s tough a make a rational argument when dealing with an irrational man.

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    1. Andrew W.

      And it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

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  7. Dfstarr

    It really blows my mind how otherwise seemingly intelligent people believe Trump's bloviating about the election being stolen after all of the claims have been debunked. Even if the claims hadn't been debunked, does anybody think the Dems are competent enough to pull off such scams? I sure don't.

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      JDW

      I would argue any organization capable of pulling off such a scam is likely already secretly in control of the country and has been for years. I don't for a second believe any federal agency even with unlimited funding could pull it off. The idea that the feckless Democrats could do so is beyond laughable.

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    2. Goatprairie

      Well then, according to the MAGA types YOU'RE IN ON THE STEAL!!!!! Yes indeed, if you don't believe that after more than two years, multiple investigations and audits showing that Trump decisively lost to Biden, YOU'RE IN ON THE STEAL!! The facts be damned.
      I mean, just look at all the people at Trump's rallies where he demagogued...er.... fired up the audience. And Biden drew almost zero to his few rallies.
      Surely, that proved that Trump won, right? /s

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  8. Charles.Repine

    It still baffles me that we're talking about potential running mates for Trump, but we don't really verbalize that the chief reason he's even in the market for a new running mate is because an angry mob of his supporters tried to *murder* his last one. That's just...crazy to me.

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    Charlie (Smitty) Smith

    "On a primal level, I crave a Trump/Greene ticket."

    A reality TV show based on this would be comic genius. Perhaps a new apprentice where each contestant try's to convince team Trump/Greene that Trump is already president?

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      Lawrence D'anna

      This reality TV show already exists. It's called Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

      I'll admit the first season was pretty funny but I think it jumped the shark a while ago.

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    George.Skinner

    The challenge for the Republican party is there seems like there's a significant part of the base that won't understand why a Trump/MTG ticket would be a bad idea. It's like dealing with a brain-damaged person who has a hard time processing the consequences of their actions, and gets violent when you intervene. The more normal part of the party knows that letting them play with a lighter near the living room curtains isn't a good idea, but it seems to be keeping them happy and anyway, last time they took a swing at you and gave you a black eye.

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