South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said that she would consider becoming former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in 2024, if she was asked.
While she has long evaded questions about a possible 2024 presidential bid, she gave a recent interview suggesting that she would be the GOP presidential nominee’s No. 2.
“I will tell you that, of course, I would consider it,” Mrs. Noem told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “I think everybody should consider it. Our country is breaking in front of our very eyes today, and everybody should be part of putting it back on its foundation.”
She then affirmed her support for President Trump as the likely nominee, saying that “if President Trump is back in the White House, I would do all I can to help him be successful.”
A RealClearPolitics average of GOP polling shows that the former president is still far ahead of the rest of the Republican field, obtaining about 55.5 percent support. Next is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has 14.5 percent, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, with 7.2 percent.
Several months ago, Mrs. Noem was asked in another interview about whether another candidate could win. “No, I don’t think so. President Trump is in the race and right now I don’t see a path to victory for anybody else with him in the race and the situation as it sits today,” she said.
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“But I think people should saddle up—it could be a roller coaster of a presidential race,” she added. “I think it’ll be unprecedented in what we’ll see. There’s a lot of unknowns and the person who may win may not even be in the race yet.”
So far, President Trump has not commented on whether he would consider Mrs. Noem as a potential running mate. Last month, he suggested in a Truth Social post that the first Republican debate could serve as an audition of sorts to see who he may consider for his presidential pick.
“Let them debate so I can see who I MIGHT consider for Vice President!” he wrote on Truth Social.
At the same time, an array of names have been suggested as his possible running mate, including former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and conservative radio host Larry Elder, who is also running for president. Mr. Elder told Newsweek in July that he would be open to an offer from President Trump.
First Debate
The first Republican presidential primary debate is scheduled to be held on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which could serve as a critical swing state in 2024. The event will also air on Fox News.
For months, the former president has suggested he would pass on the first debate, questioning why he should partake in the event when polls show he’s far ahead of the rest of the GOP field. He’s also argued that it does not make sense to give the others a chance to attack him, and he’s has also criticized Fox over its recent coverage of him.
His absence could mean Mr. DeSantis will become the focus of attacks from other candidates looking to position themselves as the primary alternative to the former president.
President Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination ahead of the 2024 election will gather at the debate to tout their candidacies. But so far only a few have aggressively criticized Trump.
The onetime president also has an Aug. 25 deadline to voluntarily surrender himself in Fulton County, Georgia, after being charged this week in a fourth criminal indictment regarding alleged activity on his part following the 2020 election.
He also faces two federal indictments over his handling of classified documents after leaving office in January 2021 and over his alleged role in efforts to overturn the election loss. He also faces charges in New York over alleged hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election.
Most self-identified Republicans polled in June by Reuters said they saw the indictments of President Trump up to that point as political in nature.
Reuters contributed to this report. Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.
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No!!! Dont pick another politician. Pence all over again.
Agree
Lake would be good.
Vivek.
Mace is iffy-may be to independent minded.
Elder would be great, if controllable.
I don’t see any primary contenders as even worth a glance.
I don’t think Elder will qualify as a contender, sadly.
Almost agree. I think it should be someone as rabidly anti-Deep State as Trump, so if Trump is impeached and removed from office, the Deep State will still have a problem. That person could be a politician, or it could by a non-pol (like RFK Jr., who is also hated by the Deep State – hate from the Deep State is “street cred” in this election).
Exactly. She is Pence 2.0
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. Keep the great governors in place. South Dakota likes Noem and she is doing a great job. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the same thing. Kim Reynolds in Iowa, once again a great Governor. Keep these good people in place. We don’t need to fuel their political ambitions. Voters have no Idea what kind of a screw up they will get in their place if they run for Vice President.
I pray not! She is pure rino fake fraud. She has caught against true patriots in her states government, let us not forget she blocked the banning of trannies in school sports. She is a fraud!
Indeed. She’s a R-I-N-O!!!
How about Tucker Carlson for VP? Would be great to see all the RINO tards at Fox News go into total vapor lock.
We need Tucker to stay right where he is as a truthful and brilliant journalist. The swamp would ruin him.
Agreed on two points…Tucker would probably be great but I believe his talents would be wasted in that role. And, Noem is a definite RINO!!
Kristi Noem is the hottest governor on the planet and has done a good job in South Dakota, but I think someone like Tucker Carlson would make an excellent VP.
Absolutely not.
I would support Don Jnr prepare him for president.
Nope. Saw her at the Reagan. She’s a big nothing.
Nope. She’s Bonus-Hole Mike Pence.
Meh, the fact she appears with Faux Nooz’s, Sean Vannity raises suspicions in itself. Is a blessing from the philandering braggart required for political office?
The swamp is viscious and desperate. Trump needs someone business savvy, high energy, fearless, and aggressive. Someone who’s been through the swamp fire: Gen Flynn, Patrick Byrne, Matt Gaetz, Rand Paul.
No more Pence types that remind me of those videos of female cops not backing up their male partner or having citizens steping in to help her handcuff a suspect. RFK is way too late in the game on immigration to be trusted. Swamp loves picking off Kenneys.
Some good suggestions, although having another General who could not be fired this time could be catastrophic. Flynn seems like the real deal but Trump was fooled at least twice before.
this would be one more in a long series of catatastrophic PDJT personnel selections. LAKE IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE!
I think so.
NO “RUNNING MATES”! The U.S. Constitution requires that the Vice-President is elected in a SEPARATE race from the President. Follow the Constitution!
kari lake or ramaswamy(He said he wouldn’t take #2 but things change)
Try this one on for size: Lauren Opal Boebert, armed and dangerous.
noem would do a bang up job as vp for trump…then (just like nicki haley and mike pence)) she would turn on her benefactor in a heart beat.
Big mistake! Noem completely caved when ultra-deep state member Marc Benioff (billionaire founder of San Francisco’s Salesforce Computing Company ) visited her and threatened her her to rescind her support for a bill that outlawed allowing transgenders in women sports. She then caved to his demands. She is a total non-entity with no real principles. She is, in effect, just another Neocon.
Read about her caving here:
https://apnews.com/article/legislature-lobbying-south-dakota-legislation-kristi-noem-ea2447e3a06b7c11f7ab4f16a56d6f03
No. A vice president should be as competent as the president, and ready to take over if necessary. Particularly, since Trump can serve no more than four years, his VP should be an able successor with similar policy and goals who can run in ’28. Of the people now in the limelight (though there are many others not publicly known), only Ramaswamy comes anywhere near meeting the standard. He doesn’t yet have a working knowledge of how to function in the swamp, but several years in the arena should fix that. Whoever Trump chooses needs to be for work, not a political fashion statement.
“He doesn’t yet have a working knowledge of how to function in the swamp…” yet “A vice president should be as competent as the president, and ready to take over if necessary.” This post is nonsensical.
Ram Swampy is a swamp rhino a globalist. He’s a Stranger in a Strange Land. We have a love of those already messing up the house and Congress. Lake or Matt Gaetz
UM, NO and NO!… She’s not anywhere close to Kari Lake!…Unlike Kari Lake, Kristi is not someone to trust and is a hypocrite at that … She’s the Republican version of “I was for it before I was against it” … during the democrat COVID scamdemic lockdowns… It was found later that she was all for the lockdowns until the Republican State legislators made her not go about locking down the State.. It was be an embarrassment to have her as VP!… Mind as well find a RINO to fill the VP spot at that point..
There are a number of non-RINO republicans he could pick like Kari Lake or a number of others, Kristi is not one of them!.. Her State would of been locked down and economy crushed (like with these RINO Govs to foolishly followed democrats and locking down their States) during democrats COVID scamdemic had it not been for the SD republican legislators.