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STEFANIK/KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES / LAKE/REBECCA NOBLE/GETTY IMAGES / HALEY/SCOTT EISEN/GETTY IMAGES / SCOTT/DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES


Rep. Elise Stefanik, N.Y. Insider Turned Trumpster


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t first glance, Elise Stefanik is the antithesis of the Trumpster Republican: Harvard graduate, former White


House staff er under George W. Bush, and alumnus of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign (in which she helped Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan prepare for his debate with Vice President Joe Biden). But having first won election to Congress in 2014 at age 30 and moved into the fourth-highest leadership spot in the House GOP hierarchy in ’21 (chair of the House Republican Conference), Stefanik is a close House ally of the former president and strongly supported Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020. She defended Trump supporters involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.


At 39, with one young child, Stefanik passed on running for the House speakership this year. Whether she would leave the House to run in a national campaign is uncertain.


Kari Lake, Ariz. True Believer


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f any prospective candidate is closest to Trump, it’s Kari Lake. A fervent believer in Trump’s stolen election claims,


the former TV newscaster was narrowly edged out in the ’22 race for governor of Arizona. Like her hero, she cried “fraud!,” refused to concede, and


pursued various angles in court to get a new count or ballots thrown out. Lake is now the leading Republican contender for the U.S.


Senate seat of Kyrsten Sinema (who switched from Democrat to independent). Trump has endorsed her and reportedly persuaded 2022 nominee Blake Masters to pass on this year’s Senate race and instead seek an open House seat. Focused on a Senate bid, Lake seems an increasingly


improbable choice for Trump’s ticket. But given the closeness of the two, it’s not impossible.


Nikki Haley, S.C. Anti-Trump as VP?


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ince her much-praised performance in the first televised debate with fellow Republican presidential candidates (excluding Trump, of course), Nikki Haley has been increasingly spoken of as the “anti-Trump” — the candidate whom most or all of the Republican hopefuls could rally around to stop you- know-who.


It goes without saying that this doesn’t endear the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador to Trump.


In addition, her penchant for greater U.S. involvement overseas is faulted by MAGA Republicans who favor non- intervention.


“She’s surrounded by neocons [interventionist conservatives] and that makes her unacceptable to a lot of us on the right,” said former Texas GOP Chairman Tom Pauken, a conservative activist since the days of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.


But Haley and Trump


have not sniped at each other much and she still remains a prospect.


Sen. Tim Scott, S.C. The Black Jack Kemp


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s the lone Black candidate, Scott — appointed to the Senate by then-Gov. Nikki Haley — draws immediate


attention wherever he campaigns. Trump avoided any harsh words about him — rare for him regarding any opponent or critic — and has gone out of his way to praise Scott as a player in his tax cut legislation of 2018. Larry Casey, an attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida, and a veteran of numerous campaigns at every level, said, “I’m supporting Tim Scott because he’s so much like my old boss” — Jack Kemp, the late New York congressman and 1996 GOP vice presidential nominee. “He’s always upbeat, enthusiastic, and speaks of a society that gives everyone opportunity.”


It is uncertain how far Scott will go in his bid for the presidential nomination. But a Trump-Scott ticket is not outside the realm of possibility.


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