South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Sunday that former President Donald Trump would benefit from choosing a woman as his running mate for the November presidential election.
The Republican governor told CNN, “polls tell him in the swing states that a woman on the ticket helps him win.”
Her comment was made in response to a question about who he should pick as his vice presidential candidate. So far, President Trump has made no public comment on his choice.
“One in four Republican women haven’t made up their minds because they want to have a woman talking to them about the issues they care about,” said Ms. Noem, who has often been mentioned in the media as a possible running mate.
“And women aren’t monolithic. They don’t care about just one issue. They care about health care, they care about their children, they care about their futures,” she said.
“They care about having an opportunity to have a business and to have a career,” the governor said. “And all of that is being threatened under [President] Joe Biden. But yes, the women vote is extremely important.”
Other politicians who have been flagged as potential running mates for President Trump include North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.).
When she was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash, Ms. Noem didn’t say if she is still being considered for the No. 2 position.
“I told President Trump over and over again, he needs to pick whoever helps him win. I have been loyal to him since the very beginning when he first started to run in 2016,” she said, adding that President Trump’s “priority is picking a running mate that can govern on day one, that has been loyal to him, that has experience and run businesses, knows how to be a CEO but also supports him in his policies..”
She continued, “I don’t care. I love my job in South Dakota. I care about the fact that I want him to win and he knows that I will do that.”
Book Controversy
In April, Ms. Noem released a book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” that detailed a decades-old instance in which she put down a dog that she described as aggressive. It drew considerable criticism, even from some Republicans.
The dog, Cricket, was “untrainable” and was also “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” as well as “less than worthless … as a hunting dog,“ she wrote in the book. “At that moment, I realized I had to put her down.”
Former President Trump was asked about the book controversy last month and told Spectrum 1 in New York that Ms. Noem had a “rough couple of days,” adding that he likes her “a lot.”
When asked again about the dog during the Sunday interview, Ms. Noem said, “I’m a mom and protected my children from a vicious animal. People are put in tough situations in life, and we learn from it.”
In the 2020 election, candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, became the first woman elected vice president. Meanwhile, independent 2024 candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also selected a woman, Nicole Shanahan, as his running mate.
“Trump Could Use A Woman As A Running Mate” Been there done that 🙁 🙁 🙁
Not that a women would be bad, but she would need to be honorable, honest, ethical and want to MAGA!
IF THE BEST Person IS a woman, than sure.. BUT PICKING A WOMAN JUST BECAUSE SHe’s a woman, is Wrong…
Most American women would be better off finding a real man as a life mate, than worrying about finding a woman for Trump as a running mate. Fix the first problem and most of the rest resolve themselves, and no need for Trump to compromise choosing the best woman vote getter over getting the best person of either sex.
ASSUMING any real guys out there, would WANT these “modern women..”
Think about the disgraceful women that we have or had in congress and government;
Nasty Nancy Pelosi, disgraceful Liz Chaney, racist Maxine waters, useless Kamala Harris, Radical Bimbo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hateful Muslims Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib, forked tongue Elizabeth Warren, hateful Ayanna Pressley, Corrupt Corine Brown, crooked Hillary Clinton and Biden selects transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary.
Kristi Noem: Trump Could Use a Woman as a Running Mate
Only if she supports MAGA/ America First !!
All she is interested in is Noem Man’s land,,,no men, no dogs, no election victory, but everyone especially the women all get to feel warm and fuzzy. This is warfare and we need the toughest meanest Guard dog in the Conservative pack elected in most every Major Federal position. More important is the fight in the dog than dog in the fight. Frankly I’m sick and tired of taking the Democrat’s demonic flaming darts in the back of my neck and the front of my finances. WE THE PEOPLE were designed to be productive descent humans, not dart boards and human pin cushions that Democrats can create Dolls out of and stick their voo doo political pins into at will, protected only by female chihuahuas dogs instead of studly German shepherds.
WE the people need wolves. What we have in office, are lapdogs.
Trump has a problem!!!! The problem is Trump and what he says/does!! While a woman wouldn’t be a bad thing, his ‘Me first’ mentality and his ‘it was better in the past’ mentality would preclude a woman on the ticket.
If picking a woman would make Trump first,,,,he would pick her. Kind of like picking your nose,,you never know if out comes a pearl in those oysters ,,,or just snot and slime. When Joe picked Kamala he thought he got a rare black Pearl, but she soon revealed herself to be just more slippery Democrat flotsum and Jetsum/
Now that’s a mental image i can’t wash out of my mind , any time soon.
I like Noem. I have never understood the hand wringing over the “dog” incident. If one has a dangerous dog (which obviously the dog in question who likes to attack people was), you can have them euthanized by a Vet, or if you have the capability you can shoot the dog and save the Vet bill. That this woman has the straight thinking ability to take care of the situation in a logical manner says something for her intelligence, decision making and leadership ability. In other words, Kristi Noem seems to be the antithesis of the typical politician.
Same. A few weeks after that noem dog thing came out, i remember listening to a vid by a woman, who CELEBRATED COPS Shooting several dogs at folks homes “because the cops need their safety”.
BUT A FAMILY PERSON killing a dog, for their OWN SAFETY after the dog ALREADY showed its unsafe, how DARE SHE…