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We disagree about Trump's chances of winning. To me, it seems like Trump is determined to lose. Selecting Newt as his VP candidate would help him achieve that goal. Newt is not a good campaigner. With Newt, potential voters would be treated to one candidate who speaks mostly in sentence fragments and prefers to communicate with voters in 140 character bits. Newt is the exact opposite. He is very intelligent but will bore the kind of people who might support Trump to tears with his long winded speeches.

The only thing that Cotton might bring to a Trump ticket would be to appeal to conservatives - but most people vote based on the top of the ticket and don't give much thought to the VP. And if Trump needs help winning Arkansas or any other state in the deep south, then no VP pick is going to enable him to avoid a massive loss.

The smart money is on Hillary. If members of Congress believed that Trump had a better than even chance of winning in November, there would not be so many holdouts. I don't think Trump won over many new converts during his recent visit with Republican House and Senate members.

I hope that no young conservative risks his or her career by accepting a spot on Trump's ticket. Newt, a political has-been, would be the perfect running mate for a candidate who will probably lose anyway. If circumstances required Newt to replace Trump, then he is very qualified to be president, unlike the top of the ticket.

Trump did invite Ted Cruz to speak at the convention and Cruz accepted the invitation (without endorsing Trump). That was a step in the right direction.

BTW, I have always respected Newt. He was the most outstanding Speaker of the House of my lifetime and he has a great understanding of what has made this country great. I thoroughly enjoyed a controversial U.S. History class that he taught while he served in the House.

My opinion differs. At this point I see Trump pulling it out just because of Hillary having all the red tape she does. I just don't see her pulling it out. Trump's base is much smaller than they want you to think, but they are fired up a great deal more. Although Trump has a few unenthusiastic voters, I would say that most of Hillary's base feels the same way about her that Mitt Romney's base felt about him in 2012. Not much enthusiasm, but they think she is better than what the opposition offers.

Overall, most people are disappointed in the outcome of the primaries. At least over the course of my lifetime, it has been tough to take either candidate seriously but this one really takes the cake.

I used to like Newt a lot but not as much now considering he has leaned a little bit to the left on a couple key issues in recent years. Newt is very, very smart - to the point where it impacts his ability to socialize and in speeches.

I do respect that Newt goes to such lengths in his speeches. He is the type that an informed political voter would enjoy listening to whether they agree with him or not.

I just can't see him picking Newt as his VP though. The reason, Newt is the type that will call something out if he sees it as wrong. Trump needs more of a "yes man."

Cotton isn't a "yes man" either, thus I honestly see it being someone like Mike Pence that runs with him.