The Republican 2024 presidential primary’s first contest in Iowa just weeks away, talk of Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick has filled the back rooms of both Mar-a-Lago and Washington, D.C.
And on Monday, there were two major developments.
One Republican leader may be in. The other is almost certainly out.
Conservative media star Tucker Carlson addressed the rumors that he was favored during a Monday appearance on his former Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly’s show, and he was clear about his opinion: No, thank you.
“Well, it’s just… it’s just so unimaginable,” Carlson said about rumors that Trump is considering him for running mate. “I mean, I haven’t led a life that prepares a person for politics.”
“As I said, I don’t think I have any like horrible skeletons or anything,” he continued.”It’s not that, it’s just that that’s not how my brain works. I’ve never done anything like that.”
“I can’t imagine spending time with politicians,” Carlson said.
Carlson further addressed the rumor at a recent conservative gala, and said that he would not accept a vice presidential invitation without anything short of divine intervention.
“God would have to yell at me very loud,” he said.
“I have no interest in that,” Tucker Carlson says when a member of the audience presses again whether he’d be Trump’s VP. He gives one lecture to his employees, Tucker adds, “stay in your freaking lane.”
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Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate speculation ran into another potential partner late Monday.
Republican primary rival and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s name was floated to daughter-in-law Laura Trump, during an appearance on Newsmax, and Mrs. Trump refused to rule out the idea of a Republican unity ticket.
Eric Bolling asked about entruepaneur Vivek Ramaswamy joining the 2024 Trump campaign as he running mate, and the 45th’s president’s daughter-in-law said there was a “lot of talk about a lot of people.”
“There’s Trump-Tucker Carlson talk, there’s obviously Trump-Vivek talk, there’s… yeah. I thought you were gonna say Trump-Chris Christie talk, which you’d have a better chance of Joe Biden running with Donald Trump than Chris Christie at this point,” she joked.
“Would he ever pick Nikki Haley?” Bolling asked directly.
“Crazier things have happened. I don’t know. I would never say never with Donald J. Trump,” Laura replied.
“Never say never.”
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