The GOP Is Already Clashing Over Trump’s VP Pick
Politico“Nikki Haley as VP would be an establishment neocon fantasy and a MAGA nightmare,” Rep. Matt Gaetz told me. “Nikki Haley wants to be in every war the world has to offer,” said Donald Trump Jr., vowing that with his father as president again America will not send the “next generation to die in yet another never-ending war.” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks on stage at his caucus night victory event in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 15, 2024. Emphasizing this point, one of Trump’s loyalists pointed out to me that the former president has mostly attacked her on policy issues and hasn’t called Haley “bird brain” for some time. Doug Burgum, who endorsed Trump before Iowa, would be on that list, and he’s helped because he also has another trait the former president admires: wealth. Yet few in Trump’s inner circle are enthusiastic about the burst of stories that would accompany her selection, namely her support for a strict state abortion ban that complicates the former president’s desire to downplay the issue and allegations that she had a romantic relationship with her principal adviser, and 2016 Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.