Republicans remain locked in a dogfight over Donald Trump’s nomination for vice president, with Tim Scott and Doug Burgun rising in the ranks, but Kristi Noem’s efforts literally going nowhere.
Sen. Scott of South Carolina checks off many of the boxes that former Vice President Mike Pence checked off, according to an anonymous senator.
“I think he wants someone who won’t lead him astray, who will be loyal to him, who will bring something to him.”
“That’s why I think Tim Scott will be an attractive choice for him because I think Tim is very loyal, very articulate and smart,” the senator said.
Meanwhile, former front-runner, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, is virtually out of contention following revelations that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket.
Republicans remain in a dogfight to win Donald Trump’s nomination for vice president, with Tim Scott and Doug Burgun rising in the ranks, but Kristi Noem’s efforts have literally come to nothing.
Several sources cited by The Hill agree with the consensus in Republican circles that her campaign may be doomed.
“She’s just done, too much drama,” said a Republican senator who knows how Trump feels about this.
Experts and GOP insiders believe North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Scott are impressing the former president.
Burgum – who, like Scott, unsuccessfully ran for president – continues to rise in stature in Trump world.
The senator who called Noem “too much drama” says Burgum can credibly be seen as a moderate on issues like abortion as Democrats will try to play it off against the GOP in November.
Burgum is also a billionaire himself, which means he can finance his presidential campaign himself.
Kari Lake is also seen as a downer, with Trump not liking her losing campaign for governor and her long-running effort to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate.
Some Republicans were willing to suggest that the shooting of her dog issue was a killer for Noem.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott checks off many of the boxes that former Vice President Mike Pence checked off, according to an anonymous senator
Meanwhile, former front-runner, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, is virtually out of contention following revelations that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket.
“I think it’s very difficult to explain to someone that you’re shooting a puppy, and I think that hurt her quite a lot,” said Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate himself.
‘I can’t imagine doing that. I was quite stunned when I read it,” said Senator Shelly Moore Caputo of West Virginia The hill.
U.S. Senators Marco Rubio, JD Vance; and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik all attended an event with Scott at Mar-a-Lago this weekend that many saw as part of the VP screening process.
Scott remains the favorite on Poylmarket, where people can bet on the VP race, followed by Vance, Rubio, Stefanik and Dr. Ben Carson.
Noem is currently in ninth place, with the same odds as independent candidate for president and former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ron DeSantis, Mike Pompeo, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Vivek Ramaswamy also maintain longshot bids.
This comes as President Joe Biden recently overtook the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee Trump in betting odds on who will win the election, with people favoring the Democrat by just over a percentage point.
The controversy over Noem’s dogs, which has even outraged and angered her fellow conservatives on social media, has led Mention to do damage control.
Experts and GOP Insiders Believe North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum is Rising in Value
Kari Lake is also seen as a downer, with Trump not liking her losing campaign for governor and her long-running effort to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate.
“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story about Cricket, one of the working dogs on our ranch,” she wrote on Sunday on can be placed. Because Cricket was showing aggressive behavior towards people by biting them, I decided what I did.”
“As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way is not the right way.’
The book, titled No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwardwill be released on May 7.
In it, Noem writes about the dog she shot in the gravel pit on her family’s property, just before her children came home from school.
The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed – as evidenced by Cricket ruining a pheasant hunt because he was “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time for her.” to live.’
Furthermore, when the governor of South Dakota took Cricket to meet a local family, the dog began killing the family’s chickens like “a trained killer.”
According to a book excerpt obtained by the GuardianCricket “took one chicken at a time, crunched it to death with one bite, then dropped it to attack another.”
When Noem finally got the dog, she wrote that Cricket “twisted around trying to bite me.”
Scott remains the favorite on Poylmarket, where people can bet on the VP race, followed by Vance, Rubio, Stefanik and Dr. Ben Carson
Noem is currently in ninth place, with the same odds as independent candidate for president and former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Cricket was ‘the epitome of pure joy.’ Meanwhile, the owner of the chickens was crying.
Noem said she wrote a check “for the price they asked and helped them clean up the carcasses at the scene of the crime.”
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, believing the fourteen-month-old pooch was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with,” and “less than worthless… as a hunting dog.”
So she decided to kill Cricket.
“At that moment,” the governor wrote. “I realized I had to put her down.”
She shot Cricket in the family’s gravel pit.
The revelation has proven unpopular and damaging to her reputation across the board, as Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana noted.
‘Bipartisan outrage! I was just amazed that for once there was no Blue America, no Red America, just one America,” Cassidy said.
‘That’s just as crazy. Why would you do that to a puppy? It’s just crazy,” he said.
