Kristi Noem has made it clear that she desperately, desperately wants to be Donald Trump‘s running mate in 2024. And, after months of campaigning for the job, it appears she’s just about sealed the deal.
Earlier this week, the 52-year-old gay-hating governor flew down to Mar-a-Lago to have a private meeting with the 77-year-old one-term, twice-impeached, quadruply-indicted ex-president.
“It was a good, long conversation with the president,” she told local media afterwards. “We met for a long time.”
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But she stopped short of saying what they actually spoke about.
“I’m not going to share private conversations that I had with the president,” she teased. “We did have a good meeting yesterday.”
“I’ve known Trump for years,” she continued. “We worked together when I was in Congress, he’s come to South Dakota, so it was good to visit with him and talk a little bit about 2024.”
The meeting comes just days after she tied with 9/11 truther Vivek Ramaswamy for first place for Trump’s VP pick in a straw poll conducted at CPAC.
Both received 15% of the vote, followed by Tulsi Gabbard at 9% and Elise Stefanik and Tim Scott tied at 8%. Further down the list was Kari Lake at 6% and Sarah Huckabee Sanders at 5%.
During a speech at CPAC, Noem took a shot at anyone who dared to run against Trump for the 2024 nomination, then crowed about how she was one of the first people to endorse him for president and didn’t even consider entering the race herself because, unlike all the others, she’s a loyal sycophant.
“Why did all these other people and candidates get into the race?” she asked the crowd. “For themselves. For personal benefit. For a spotlight for a period of time.”
She went on to gush about how Trump “broke politics in 2016” and “I think that’s a good thing.”
“Because he’s real,” she continued. “He’s not perfect—none of us are. But he cares about you. And what I love about him the most is that he doesn’t think he’s better than you.”
At CPAC 2024, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says it's clear that former President Donald Trump is the only candidate that has the support to be the Republican nominee.@GovKristiNoem @KristiNoem
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This week, Politico reported that Noem has been angling for a meeting with Trump’s former VP Mike Pence, who the ex-president tried to have murdered, for advice on how she might increase her own chances of being his next victim picked as his next #2.
But she’s not stopping there.
Earlier this month, she announced she’s coming out with a new book this spring, as politicians almost always do whenever they want to position themselves for seeking higher office.
No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward is scheduled to hit bookstore shelves May 7, right around the time primary season will be winding down and the general election will be heating up.
Trump recently plugged the book on Truth Social, which Noem quickly re-shared and pinned to the top of her social pages.
Since assuming office in 2019, Noem has used her position to appeal to the MAGA base by chipping away at the rights of anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their extreme far-right Christian ideologies, primarily focusing her attacks on queer people and youth.
From banning drag shows to opening a “whistleblower hotline” that encourages the public to report anything “woke” happening at state colleges and universities, to outlawing gender-affirming care for trans minors and forcing those already receiving care to detransition, Noem has made it her mission as governor to ensure LGBTQ+ people are as marginalized as possible.
Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly said he doesn’t think it matters who he picks to be his #2 because “it’s never really had that much of an effect on an election” and, besides, he, alone, is enough to win any election… except, of course, in 2020 and every midterm since 2018.
During a Fox News town hall with homophobe Laura Ingraham last week, he said he was looking for a candidate with a good common sense.
“I always say I want people with common sense because there’s so many things happening in this country that don’t make sense,” he said somewhat nonsensically.
Of course, before Trump can pick a #2, he technically still needs to win 1,093 more delegates to reach the 1,215 threshold and avoid going bankrupt and being sentenced to prison. And while he appears on be on a glide path for his party’s nomination, with four criminal trials, 91 criminal counts, and roughly $600 million in legal expenses stacked against him, that other task might not be so easy.
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Adulterous cvnt whore!
abfab
Bimbo, empty headed bigot……but nobody is perfect!
Kangol2
Is she still allegedly shtupping known assaulter Corey Lewandowski? Does she really think she could be VP if people in her party, let alone everyone else, knew she was allegedly committing double adultery (he’s married too, but not to her) despite claiming to be a “family values” RepubliCon?
This has been reported not just in Vanity Fair, but in the far-right-wing New York Post, Daily Mail, and other news organs!
Kangol2
In case people want some proof:
“Governor Kristi Noem, “God-Fearing” Family Woman, and Corey Lewandowski, Trump Creep, Reportedly Had “Yearslong” Affair,” Vanity Fair, September 15, 2023.
“SD Gov. Kristi Noem having ‘absurdly blatant and public’ affair with ‘handsy’ Trump aide Corey Lewandowski, sources say,” New York Post, September 15, 2023.
“EXCLUSIVE: Married South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having a years-long clandestine affair,” Daily Mail, 15 September 2023.
“Stories of Gov. Kristi Noem’s personal life distracting from real challenges, insiders say,” Sioux Falls Live, September 18, 2023.
abfab
God fearing? Is that still a thing?
abfab
She better pull (put) out more than that. Whore.
abfab
This is how dumb this bitch is. What’s in the water in that state of hers?
“Because he’s real,” she continued. “He’s not perfect—none of us are. But he cares about you. And what I love about him the most is that he doesn’t think he’s better than you.”
abfab
”Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump nominee, worried that the prohibition would “ensnare” Americans who weren’t aware of it.”
Ensnare. The gun owners would be ensnared.
ZzBomb
Why is that everyone in the GQP these days; men, women and lizard people, all seem to cake and plaster on the make-up? Makes you wonder how they can hate drag queens so much when they should be taking notes instead?
abfab
Well miss you so much, Mitch. Lindsay’s eye shadow would look perfect on him today as he gracefully leaves the stage.
Mister P
Trump is having trouble finding someone more clueless than he is.
abfab
If this tramp really and truely loved him she could buy up a few of his tacky golf courses and give the ”gentleman” a helping hand….
Trump Says He Might Have to Sell Properties to Pay $454 Million Penalty
The ex-president, who is appealing the penalty in his civil fraud case, offered a bond of only $100 million to pause the judgment.
NYT
Baron Wiseman
I’m here for the deep, existential discussions as evidenced by the above posts.
abfab
Who want’s to take that absurd statement!
Mack
You wouldn’t know deep if it bit you in the ass. Your pea brain couldn’t handle it.
Bosch
Troll needs attention, but is too lazy to start proper argument.
What’s the matter, baron dumfuk? Not feeling too hot today?
dbmcvey
I love that you think you’d be able to recognize a deep, existential discussion.
dbmcvey
Barren, did you ever research the Southern Strategy?
ZzBomb
What about another KKK loving clown debasing herself to be the VP of a man who will likely be convicted before the election warrants any “existential discussion” on our part?
We’re not some cheap fly over state whore trying to kiss a stinky ass clown?
decrans
Who want’s to take that absurd statement!
Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel strikes again.
dbmcvey
Oh, look! decraps is adding something germane and kind!
SoPluckyWhat
You’re never too old to learn something new.
abfab
Another selfish statement from the homophobe in chief:
Lauren Boebert’s son arrested on 22 felony, misdemeanor charges: “It breaks my heart”.
Not a single word about his victims.
“I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man and the subject of attention that he didn’t ask for,” Lauren Boebert said in the statement. “It breaks my heart to see my child struggling and in this situation, especially when he has been provided multiple opportunities to get his life on track. I will never give up on him and I will continue to be there for him.”
Mack
I’m surprised she didn’t blame the illegals, gays, Democrats and so forth since that’s her MO. Perhaps she would be better off resigning and spending time with her family instead of trying to jerk someone off in a theater.
abfab
Smells like The Sarah Palin Family.
KM201
I don’t know why she, or any of the other wannabe’s, bother. It’s going to be Tucker Carlson. It’s been in the cards for a long time. They just aren’t letting anyone know yet because it would, rightfully, enrage a lot of the GOP’s biggest donors (and a lot of Americans too, for obvious reasons). You’ll see this is the case when Trump makes his big reveal at the convention.
Herman75
When Kristi turns around, puts hands on hips and does the tush wiggle for Trump, does that keep her in the running for Veep? Kristi is a MAGA natural!!