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Jackie Calmes: The Trump veep guessing game is silly

Vance, left, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, shakes hands with former President Donald Trump during a rally hosted by the former president at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio.

For all the conjecture and wishcasting about who or what could knock President Joe Biden or Donald Trump out of the 2024 presidential race, their rematch was never much in doubt. Instead, in a measure of just how dispiriting the contest is, the only real question has been a relatively inconsequential one: Who will be Trump’s running mate?

That question should be: Who would to be his running mate? Trump, after all, rewarded former Vice President Mike Pence for his four years of emasculating sycophancy by to the mercies for “anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution.”

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