Trump Shakes Up 2024 with Blockbuster Vice Presidential Announcement

Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Explain America

I'm your host, Carmine Sabia, and former President Donald Trump has rocked the Republican Party

and, well, people who are watching the primaries in general with a new announcement about his vice presidential pick

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Those little things really help us out, and they help our channel continue to grow. The former president sat down with former Fox News host, Todd Starnes

who now has his own radio show for an interview this week

and Starns had some questions about Trump's vice presidential pick. Look, everybody's wondering

it's obviously not going to be Mike Pence who has announced his candidacy for president

which kind of went over like the Hindenberg. But anyway, Trump's obviously not going to pick Mike Pence again

They have their issues and whatnot, and plus Pence is running for president. So who will he pick

Well, for a lot of people, the obvious choice was, Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis He number two in the polls although a distant number two but still number two And usually that makes for a good marriage The frontrunner the guy who gets the pick and the guy who the runner up in this case DeSantis Now that didn work with you know Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Kamala was way behind way behind She was certainly not number two in the polls to him

So you have that, right? And then you have, you know, Trump and DeSantis not having the greatest history, right

Well, Trump kind of made it official when he talked to Starns. He said that he would never say never, but that it would be unlikely that he would pick DeSantis for

vice president. So when pressed on the matter, Trump said, look, he was still, you know, furious

that DeSantis, who Trump helped get into the governorship in Florida. In fact, many would say

and be correct about it, if it was not for Donald Trump, DeSantis would not be governor

So he felt that it was a disloyal move by DeSantis. Now, you can agree or disagree with that

you know, if you like, but Trump has a valid point in his argument. You know, if you've got national

attention that puts you in line for the presidency, and I'm the one who got you that national

attention, then probably the right thing to do would be sit this one out, endorse me

and then when it comes time for you in four years, I'll endorse you. And he probably you know as he indicated in the interview with Starns he said he probably would have picked DeSantis for vice president had DeSantis not made that disloyal move So it very interesting

Did DeSantis really shoot himself in the foot by getting involved in this presidential race

Or is there a long play here by DeSantis where he doesn't want to be vice president

where he really thinks he can beat Trump? Now you look at the polls and it's unlikely anybody's even going to come close to beating Trump

including DeSantis. it just doesn't seem likely. He's so far ahead. He's so far ahead that at this point

if this was a boxing match, the referee would stop the fight. It's gone beyond just a regular

you know, there's a five-point gap in the polls. There's like a 30-point gap in the polls

or more. So it's not something that can be easily made up

by anybody in the race. Even if everybody else dropped out, it is unlikely that DeSantis could make up enough ground

to really challenge Trump. So I think a lot of these guys that are in the race

you just saw Chris Christie join, you just saw Mike Pence join, they don't have a chance

And what I wonder is, do they know they don't have a chance? Like, is this a vanity project for them so they could write a book

or increase their CNN appearances or... I really don know what they trying to do They have to know they have no chance They have to know this They can see the same polls that we see So what is it that drives them You know at least in

DeSantis's case, you're like, well, he is in second place. He has double digits in the poll numbers

You could see why he would get in. Not saying he should have got in. You could see why. But the

people with single digits, you know, why? Why would you get in? I think if this was just one-on-one

Trump and DeSantis, Trump would probably beat him in a walk, you know, regardless of the people

regardless, even one-on-one. And Trump is treating this like a one-on-one contest

He's not even paying attention to the other people in the race because he doesn't have to. You know, he could really just walk into this nomination

He doesn't really have to go to the debate stage. He doesn't really have to campaign hard

He's Donald Trump. He's the former president. It's like being the champion in boxing

You have to beat the champion. The champion doesn't have to beat you. And Trump is essentially the champion of the Republican Party

So what I want to know is, what do you guys think about this? Who would you pick to be Trump's vice president in 2024

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