From the Hill, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is not in favor of former President Trump picking Nikki Haley as a potential VP in the 2024 Presidential election:
Noem was asked by Newsmax’s Eric Bolling if it would be a mistake if Trump chose Haley to be his vice presidential pick. She replied “yes,” without hesitation.
“But if he picked her, I would tell him I disagreed with him. But then I would support the ticket, because he’s still the president and the president still makes the decisions,” Noem said Tuesday.
and..
“And you know, I just, I’ve had a lot of disagreement with Nikki Haley over the years, and I just don’t know which Nikki Haley is going to show up every day,” Noem said, highlighted by Mediaite. “She’s a different person depending on whatever works for her political agenda.”
“I just don’t know which Nikki Haley is going to show up every day.” same could be said of governor cowgirl vs. DC girl.
SHOCKER
“I am opposed because I think I should be VP!!”
Cat fight, GOP-style!
OMG. This is hilarious. Kristi put up a HUGE sign that read “Trump/Noem 2024” at Trump’s Rapid City rally in September.
But… “Noem was asked by Newsmax’s Eric Bolling if it would be a mistake if Trump chose Haley to be his vice presidential pick. She replied ‘yes,’ without hesitation.”
You’re killing me. Damn, that’s really, really funny.
her critique of haley’s biggest flaw is spot on. well said governor.
when the sd primary comes around i’m voting for chris christie. there will never be a gop candidate that comes closer to the qualities we all loved in bill janklow.
if you don’t remember the best of janklow don’t even talk to me.
christie/noem would be a real dream ticket. it would revive the larger gop as a big tent party, restore honesty and aspirational leadership. and maybe it could campaign without resorting to phone-nazis swatting their opponents.
Noem, honesty? Surely you jest.
i jest not.
Why not Vivek?
Desperation is setting in with this political grifter. All we need is Kari Lake, Bobo or Marge Taylor Green to get into the fray too!
Then add DeSantis & Ramaswamy trying to get on the ticket
What a complete dumpster fire!
Trump/Noem 2024 swirling down the toilet bowl.
Didn’t Noem criticize Haley for proving free lunches to students living in poverty? How Christian of her.
While you chip away at Gov. Noem, realize you’re only making her candidacy stronger (wink, wink!).
“candidacy”?
She is not running for anything, Mark. Oh wait… she is advertising nationwide. And promoting herself as VP material. Perhaps she should have to pay for those campaign activities with her own funds?
Nikki Haley has far more credentials and would easily win a debate against Kristi Noem.
True, but then again a dead groundhog could beat Noem in a debate.
Stephanie Herseth couldn’t do it. She floundered when tbey were asked whom they would support for Speaker of the House.
come to think of it, Marty Jackley struggled when he was on the debate stage too
Say what you will about Noem, but she is smarter than most people think. Herseth and Jackley underestimated her, both on the debate stage and on how negative she is willing to go in a campaign, and it cost them. Sutton held his own, but there weren’t enough Democrats were left around to push him over the top.
Those smarts are why, even though Trump said he would back her, Noem never challenged Thune. She would have been D.O.A. in that campaign the moment she declared. Instead, she became more focused on VP/Cabinet in possible next Trump administration and that is looking like the smarter play.
“Say what you will about Noem, but she is smarter than most people think.”
Absolutely true. She even knows that the election in 2020 was NOT stolen. Along with Trump, she has been claiming that the opposite is true. Maybe she is smart enough to prove it but – I haven’t seen her do that. Neither have the courts that looked into it. They prefer facts.
The comments here lately (especially from enquirer) are dumber than those at DFP.
Trump is going to be the Republican candidate for president. (Christie? 🤡)
Either get behind him and save the country…
Or don’t, and America as we know it is gone.
This is an easy choice for anyone with half a brain.
If you represent the country as we know it, then change would be a good thing.
“This is an easy choice for anyone with half a brain.”
You got that right.
during the reagan and bush 41 era, the GOP was considered a three-legged stool – the legs were fiscal conservatives, social conservatives and christian conservatives. as long as we made peace and agreed on a sizeable middle ground, we could offer our way forward on the real issues before us, and participate in truth-based debates.
limbaugh-clone talk radio, fox news and Q anon trashed that stool and created a new stool to represent the party. the new legs are:
* leg one – LIARS. they used the freedom that reagan gave talk radio to create an alternate reality – a teachable method of moving people’s perceptions to an anger that could be used politically. the goal is creation of a huge public tool that responds quickly and can bend politics to a desired result quickly. that tool exists now.
*leg two – BELIEVERS. this is the mass of long time rush listeners and fox viewers who cruised under the radar from the clinton years to the trump revolution of 2016. liars perfected the formation of this power tool in time for trump to use it successfully. i was in this group until trump launched an angry mob at the capitol to make vp pence pay at the end of a rope for being disloyal on jan 6 2021. that woke me up. ‘woke’ is a good word for some things.
* leg three – OPPORTUNISTS. top leadership, traditional rank and file who know trump is dangerous, but can’t get ahead of the fox/Q-anon LIARS to regain control – and decide to accept the BELIEVERS crafted demand for trump so they can steer the ship enough to prevent their own losses.
if you back trump, you are one of these three types. end of story. the liars and opportunists know there’s no magic 50s-sitcom USA waiting for trump voters if they win. believers deep down aren’t thinking about anything but losing the first “power” they have ever felt they have.
this new gop has no place in a pluralistic society and WANTS no place in that society. people like cheney and christie pried themselves loose from the opportunists – to save their own souls, and maybe rebuild the party of lincoln. i’m with them.
the fun thing about trump is that he’s the top liar, opportunist and believer. everything else is held hostage to that, which is the only way the word hostage can be used correctly in US politics right now.
OMGoodness, Nikki Haley has tremendous international dealings with Russia and China as our US
Ambassador to the UN during Trumps administration. Noem knows AG and that’s pretty much it. I’ve been a Haley fan since I witnessed her brilliance as ambassador. Neither Noem nor Trump demonstrate brilliance!
Former United States Ambassador to the UN President elect Haley can find a role for Kristi Noem. Kristi Noem can be America’s Rodeo Ambassador riding her horse carrying the Stars and Stripes opening the Rodeo Event from county fairs all across the country. That is all. No speeches just show up and ride her horse, load up the truck and trailer and off to the next county fair.
Haley lacks firmness of conviction, which should be the first warning sign. I’m sick of politicians that vacillate on everything from week to week or even day to day. It is a clear sign they don’t have the moral or ethical fortitude to stand their ground on their own two feet.
Each hunting season we have people from all over the US in our lodging/ restaurant area: journalists, lawyers, big and small business owners, law enforcement, etc. So many are interested in and complimentary toward our Governor. The frequent question has been whether she is considering running for President or VP. None of these people ever mention Nikki Haley. At this point, it would then seem to make no sense for Governor Noem to do so either .