Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly revealed on the “Ruthless” podcast that Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt may be on Donald Trump’s shortlist for vice president.
Playing a clip of Trump telling Newmax’s Greg Kelly that he had taken “some people” who he “didn’t think behaved properly” out of consideration, Kelly weighed in on what that could mean.
“Does ‘they didn’t behave appropriately,’ do you think — we’re trying to get into his mind — mean somebody who attacked him?” Kelly asked.
“Because I think, I think he would have used a different word. You know, ‘They turned out to be losers,'” she said.
“You know, I think he would have been stronger in his condemnation and he might have even named them, if they had actually slammed him.”
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Michael Duncan said Trump “doesn’t like desperation,” suggesting he may have ruled out “some people” who “are a little too thirsty” for the position.
Kelly predicted that Britt could be on Trump’s shortlist as a “dark horse.”
“I have my own theory,” she continued.
“My theory is it could be a reference to a rising star in the Republican Party who had such heat and buzz around them that they were asked to deliver the response to the State of the Union — and then bombed.”
Noting Trump’s “eye for television,” Kelly said the “worst sin is to embarrass” Trump.
She added that Trump “made more from Celebrity Apprentice and The Apprentice than he made in his real estate empire.”
Kelly suggested that Trump’s opinion of Britt became unfavorable after her delivery of the GOP rebuttal.
“Okay. Zero chance he didn’t realize what a train wreck that was,” Kelly said of Britt’s Republican rebuttal.
“He praised her at a rally over the weekend like a classy guy. Um, but there’s zero chance he didn’t see what the rest of us saw. So what do you think of my theory?”
“Uh, I just don’t know that she’s really a short list for that discussion. Right?” Josh Holmes responded.
“She’s a dark horse,” Kelly said. “Dark horse, Holmes.”
