It sure looks like Kari Lake’s long shot dream of being Trump’s running mate is officially dead
Donald Trump‘s VP pick for over a year, reportedly going so far as to move into a suite at Mar-a-Lago so she could be closer to the 77-year-old demagogue.
But it now appears all her hard work may have been for naught.Fresh off his victory in Iowa last night, the one-term, twice-impeached, quadruply-indicted ex-president took to the stage and basically said his #1 fangirl won’t be his #2 on the 2024 presidential ticket, should he win his party’s nomination.“She’s terrific,” Trump said yesterday after he was declared the winner in the Iowa caucus. “She’ll be a senator, a great senator, I predict, right?
You’re going to be a great senator.”Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Lake, who campaigned heavily for Trump in the Hawkeye State over the last several weeks, is currently running for the Republican nomination for U.S.
Senate in Arizona and is largely considered the frontrunner in her primary. She responded to Trump’s shout out last night with a tweet thanking him for his vote of confidence.“Thank you for the shout out, President Trump!” she wrote. “I can’t wait to help pass your incredible America First agenda in the United States Senate.”Thank you for the nice shout out, President Trump.Thank you, Iowa, for setting America back on the right trajectory.I’m so proud to be an American tonight.
