B1... if you're right on this one, I'll eat my hat. Trump isn't stupid... according to Cohen's book he really slammed Jr for shooting an elephant at some point. Why did he do that? It's not because Trump cares about elephants... it's because he cares about optics. I've told you this before. As simple or insignificant as it may seem.... the fact that Noem took her perfectly healthy dog out behind the barn and put a bullet thru its head... (you have to realize the gravity of this act as perceived by middle to upper middle ---middle class suburban moms) is horrible optics in selecting her as VP. I don't care what the details were. It's all in how it will be spun. Trump understands this. If he is smart about anything, it's stuff like this. Right or wrong, regardless of her policies and successes to date as Governor... or her political persuasions being devout and in line with Trump's... as insignificant as shooting her own dog may seem to you... the potential cannon fodder that will be used by the Dems and their bottomless pit of 24/7 ad dollars applied to such... is gonna sour the side of Trump that has carried him this far. The marketing side. But we'll see. You were right about SPX 5500 a short month or so ago.., and the "Izzy Bottom" in 2020 was a call for the ages... but I don't think you understand just how important this sector of the voting demographic is, and how pissed off the Dem ads can make them.... "shooting a poor dog in the head." Facts don't matter, optics do. It's the world we live in now.
That's all well and good. But the real reason Trump won't pick her is because he knows full well that, up close and personal, she will realize just how stupid he is and will probably shoot him, too.
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