The Ten Likeliest Vice Presidents for Trump

By Jacob Weindling | May 9, 2024 | 3:00pm

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Due to the unpredictability of Donald Trump and the chaos created by his potential Vice-Presidential sycophants, I need to get this column up before he randomly posts this news during one of his cable news rage-viewing sessions. The VP chase is in the news this week thanks to one collapsing clusterfuck of a candidate, and we are roughly two months away from the Republican convention. One would expect Trump to make his decision in the coming weeks.

We’ll list the ten candidates from least likely to most according to their odds on PredictIt, a site that allows people to bet on political outcomes and for Sean McElwee to completely overdo it and ruin his reputation. The price to buy a “yes they will be VP” share as of this writing is in parentheses.

8. Vivek Ramaswamy (5 cents)

8. Vivek Ramaswamy (5 cents) — Photo by ANGELO CARCONI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The fact that Ann Coulter told Vivek she agrees with him but won’t vote for him because he’s Indian probably rules him out. Trump can’t alienate a core constituency like unrepentant racists. Of everyone on this list, no one is thirstier to serve King Trump than Vivek, so based on that fact alone you can’t totally rule him out. Trump loves people who pledge fealty to him more than he loves all his children not named Ivanka (who he totally wants to sleep with, even Stormy Daniels confirmed it again this week).