Vice Presidential Picks

 

Trump says he has already chosen his VP candidate. This implies that it is not anyone currently running against him for the Republican nomination; and it implies he must have a big enough name on the hook that it is not worth waiting for some other possibility. 

This increases the odds that it is Tucker Carlson. Whom Melania Trump has already said she wants on the ticket.

Rumours are swirling that RFK’s running mate will be Tulsi Gabbard.

At first glance, both seem improbable. Carlson has just launched his own network; Gabbard just signed a deal to host a show on X. Were they really going to want to drop that now for a political run?

But that, I now realize, was old thinking. Gabbard and Carlson are both on X, not on some network. The “fairness doctrine,” which would have required a network to take them off the air, does not apply. They can go right on doing their programs, and their regular broadcasts might even be the ideal campaign medium. One-to-one with the voters, bypassing the biased media. Just as Trump did well when campaigning with his Twitter account, Poilievre is scoring with his political videos in Canada. 

This may be the new world of politics. 

I feel both Trump-Carlson and Kennedy-Gabbard would be extremely strong tickets. If this comes to pass, and the Democrats still run Biden-Harris, I expect Biden to come third.