Brightest Stars Not in the Mix as Trump Picks a Running Mate


As Donald J. Trump prepares to select a running mate, he has whittled the list of potential partners to a slim few, including Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker, and Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, with whom he is set to campaign on Tuesday.

Entirely absent are virtually all of the Republicans who were seen, as recently as a few months ago, as the bright stars of the party: Young officeholders who by virtue of their background or political biography, or the states they represented, seemed primed to expand the party’s electoral horizons.
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It is a mark, too, of Mr. Trump’s extraordinary isolation within the party, even as he is poised to claim its nomination, that there is no clamor among its most popular and diverse young officeholders to enlist one of their own in the race against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/donald-trump-vice-president.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well


Before you say that it doesn't matter, you'll have to define matter.

It might not matter in terms of Trump's chances in the fall. The election is going to be about the top of the ticket.

Of course, if a large part of the party is just sitting this one out, it cannot help fund raising and the ground game. I wouldn't count exclusively on the angry, burn the place down vote to get me to 270. 
Politics is a team sport.

But it does matter in terms of the future of the GOP.
And it may matter if a President Trump ever becomes incapacitated.

Last edited by Goose (7/12/2016 6:40 am)