{"id":28261,"date":"2016-05-05T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T22:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=28261"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T22:43:10","slug":"ben-carson-wsj-trump-consider-democrat-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/ben-carson-wsj-trump-consider-democrat-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson to WSJ: Trump Could Consider Democrat as VP"},"content":{"rendered":"

TrumpTrain are you paying attention at all? Better question to ask is if any of you actually care if Trump doesn’t become the candidate you thought he would be? It hasn’t been 48 hours yet since Cruz and Kasich got out and we’re already hearing disturbing news from Trump. He said he would self-fund now he is fundraising<\/a>, said he was against raising minimum wage now he’s open<\/a> to it, railed against Wall St now he hires one<\/a> with ties to Soros. And now Carson (who has taken himself out) says Trump could consider a democrat as his VP running mate!<\/p>\n

None of the flip-flops matter do they? No, because you think<\/i> he will build that wall and round-up people you don’t like.<\/p>\n

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Ben Carson Says Donald Trump Could Consider Democrat for Running Mate<\/b>
\nby Reid J. Epstein and Beth Reinhard | WSJ<\/a>
\nBen Carson, the former rival now helping presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump choose a running mate, said Thursday he doesn\u2019t want the position and that Democrats may be among those considered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not interested in doing that for a number of reasons,\u201d Mr. Carson said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a distraction. I\u2019m sure you remember how crazy the media was about me, I don\u2019t want to be a distraction, it\u2019s too important a time in our life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the wide net being cast for candidates, he added: \u201cWe would consider people who are Americans and who put America first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just two days after his last two rivals quit the primary, Mr. Trump\u2019s effort to choose a vice president is beginning to take shape. Mr. Carson is the public face on the search process, while top campaign aide Paul Manafort is maintaining tight control over the process, according to people familiar with the campaign…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TrumpTrain are you paying attention at all? Better question to ask is if any of you actually care if Trump doesn’t become the candidate you thought he would be? It hasn’t been 48 hours yet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[24630,42817,16659,84],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carson-Trump.jpg?fit=640%2C427","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28263,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions\/28263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}