Melania Trump Drops Head-Turning Name As Husband's '24 Running Mate: Report

Melania Trump Drops Head-Turning Name As Husband's '24 Running Mate: Report


Former first lady Melania Trump has reportedly made a suggestion about who her husband’s 2024 GOP running mate should be, and it’s a name most people know well.

According to Axios, Melania believes that former President Donald Trump should choose one-time Fox News star Tucker Carlson.

“…[H]ere’s an interesting twist: Melania Trump is an advocate for picking Tucker Carlson, the booted Fox News star. She thinks Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband, a source close to Trump told us. The former first lady has made few campaign appearances this time around — but a Trump-Carlson ticket might encourage her to hit the trail,” the outlet reported.

However, the outlet added: “The idea of Tucker Carlson has been discounted by many people close to Trump because they assume he’d never pick someone who could outshine him. And Trump’s staff is convinced (correctly) that Carlson can’t be controlled. But the two men talk a lot.”

In November, New York Times columnist Maggie Haberman, during an interview with host Jamie Weinstein for an episode of The Dispatch Podcast, talked about how the former president plans to fill his new administration with devoted supporters if he wins a second term, which is what Joe Biden and every other president not named Trump.

Weinstein then asked Haberman what he thought about rumors that Trump might choose Carlson to be his vice president.

“It’s a real thing that I am hearing as a possibility,” Haberman said. “The likelihood of it, I don’t know. I think there will be a pretty professional vetting process, honestly. I know that might sound unbelievable based on what we’ve seen from Trump historically, but Trump’s current political team is the best—at least as a non-incumbent—that he’s had, and there’s just a different level of control.”

While Haberman continued to speak about Carlson as a potential Trump VP pick, she noted that “the risk with Tucker Carlson and Trump is that Tucker Carlson’s a very big star in his own right, and I’m not sure how Trump would contend with that.”

Trump himself has suggested that he could pick Carlson.

“I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would,” Trump said during an appearance on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “I think I’d say I would because he’s got great common sense. You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative — it’s not that we’re conservative; we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall, because walls work.”


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