'Trump is desperate': Ex-GOP aide thinks a Vance-RFK swap is a real possibility
August 27, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has raised speculation he could try to swap out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), plagued as he is by controversy for his comments about childless women, for conspiracy theorist and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate — even though there is no clear legal mechanism that would allow him to do so.
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday evening, former Trump White House communications chief Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks this is entirely plausible.
"[Democratic strategist] Paul Begala was saying, Alyssa, that Trump would get rid of J.D. Vance, and ... [put] RFK Jr. on the ticket," said anchor Erin Burnett. "Can I just ask you, Alyssa, knowing Trump as you do ... at this point, do you think he would ever dump J.D. Vance?"
"Listen, I think that if Kamala Harris gets the post-convention bump we think, if she's successful in the debate, and she's ahead outside of the margin of error in enough swing states, I wouldn't rule anything out," said Griffin. "Donald Trump is desperate to win this. In some ways, his freedom is on the line, in light of this new court filing related to January 6. So I wouldn't rule it out."
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Additionally, she continued, Trump "loves" RFK Jr." because he's a Kennedy.
"He loves the cachet of a Kennedy name. I think he would love the idea of a Trump-Kennedy ticket," she said.
Griffin hails from the centrist wing of the GOP. Every day, she said, Trump gives people like her "more and more permission to not vote for Republicans" as he surrounds himself with people like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and J.D. Vance, who on the fundamentals, "we just don't agree on, whether it's support for Ukraine, not having tariffs on imports, wanting to pass border security deals."
"So I think he's really doubling down to what is a minority within a minority of the GOP," Griffin added.
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