Feedback shortly descended into misogyny, racism, and antisemitism.
“Nope, no females—too inclined to coercion, manipulation, bribery and group assume,” a member of The Donald wrote. ”We want one other pair of massive brass balls within the VP place, no extra weak Judas Pence’s.”
“No girls, no blacks!” one other wrote, earlier than another person added: “And no fucking jews.”
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Kari Lake
Kari Lake, a former TV star turned election conspiracist, has been one in every of Trump’s most vocal supporters since shedding her personal election for governor in Arizona in 2022. She’s additionally continued to say, with out proof, 2020 and 2022 election fraud.
Lake is now working for Senate in Arizona and, when requested about being vp, just lately advised GB Information: “I wish to assist [Trump] within the Senate. I actually assume that he’ll want assist in the Senate.” Nevertheless, she has additionally been selling her personal candidacy for the job, posting photographs of herself on Fact Social alongside Trump following his Iowa caucus victory in what some on the platform described as a 2024 election poster.
Trump’s staunchest supporters seem like all for it.
“It is a mandate from the individuals, So Donald Trump ought to select the VP greatest for America. That is Kari Lake,” QAnon influencer Pepe Deluxe wrote on their Telegram channel that has over 60,000 followers.
“I believe she’s as near a feminine Trump that we’ll get,” one member on The Donald wrote. “She do not put up with bullshit and she or he’ll name out the fraud.”
Lake has endeared herself to the MAGA wing of the Republican Occasion, and particularly to Steve Bannon who has known as Lake “the longer term” of the social gathering (in return, Lake has known as Bannon a “stud muffin.”)
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Vivek Ramaswamy
Virtually as quickly as entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy introduced he was ending his marketing campaign for the GOP nomination, on-line chatter turned to his potential as a vice presidential candidate. This was amplified final week when he appeared alongside Trump in New Hampshire and, like Stefanik, the gang started chanting “VP, VP, VP.” Over the previous few months, Ramaswamy has upped his far-right bonafides by overtly embracing right-wing conspiracies together with the good substitute principle which was broadly celebrated by the white supremacist neighborhood on-line.
However on MAGA boards and fringe social media websites, Ramaswamy’s attainable candidacy is a polarizing matter.
