Never said and never will say zero chance to Little Marco.
Last times I discussed this I said zero to Nikki, zero to Kristi Woof Woof Noem, and very low to Tim Scott who I do place at zero now.
I said Burgum and Marco were the top picks. Sticking with that with Burgum being the choice if I had a gun to my head to take a guess. He keeps on being smart, not being obnoxious, and loyal to Trump in an adult kind of way- versus Tim Scott fawning.
As usual, the "zero chance" dimwits on the forum piss me off. I am sort of old school when it comes to elections, I support some people getting on to stages early on just to see who the hell they are. Thus I rooted for the media to at least give a few minutes exposure to Burgum to find out who the hell he is. But nope. And the forum dimwits all chanted "he will never win" and not getting that his becoming president was never the frigging point. It was about whether he was becoming a rising player. Irritating dimwits. Now we eventually are arriving at the point where he may become VP.
Burgum is plenty smart but he has had to overcome somewhat of a bias against anyone who is outside the beltway or not on the coast. Kristi Noem had that same problem but she tried to overcome it by doing excessive self marketing and some of it blew up on her.
I like Burgum but being a country boy myself I could see it was going to take a while for the pundits to work their way down through the pack to start looking at him. It's just the way the world and the beltway work. They did the same to Carter. If they can sense that you have actually been near a farm or done any work with your hands, it's an immediate disqualifier unless you overcome it. Burgum has at least won himself a cabinet position so he has been playing a high quality game from the beginning.