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Hugh Hewitt Floats The Idea Of Joe Scarborough Running As Donald Trump’s Vice President [AUDIO]

Hugh Hewitt Floats The Idea Of Joe Scarborough Running As Donald Trump's Vice President [images via Getty]
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Hugh Hewitt thinks Joe Scarborough should be Donald Trump’s vice president.

Wednesday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” Scarborough, the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and a former U.S. representative said, “I will say this, and I’ve said this on the air, and so this is not really any secret at all. I’ll do anything that will get, will stop us from eight more years like the past eight years we’ve had.”

The back and forth began with Hewitt saying, “I tell people I really believe if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, your phone, Joe Scarborough, is going to ring, and he’s going to offer you the vice presidential nomination. Will you accept it?”

Scarborough replied laughing, “Oh, I’ll take a weekend at Mar-A-Lago.”

Trying to deflect the question, Scarborough said, “Why does that make sense to you?”

Hewitt replied that Trump “needs Florida. He needs someone who is media savvy. He needs someone that he gets along with relatively well and understands media. So if he asks, would you say yes?”

“I mean, first of all, I mean, Donald Trump has, I think we all know, has about as much media savvy as anybody that’s been in politics for a long time. You always get me in trouble with questions like this, Hugh,” Scarborough said.

“But no, it’s not, it’s a fair question. I’m just asking,” Hewitt said.

Attempting to deflect the question, Scarborough replied, “Nobody’s going to ask me to do anything but, like, take them to softball practice and baseball practice.”

Hewitt kept pressing Scarborough, “If he did ask you, it’s just a hypo…it’s just an if. If he asked you, would you say yes?”

“I don’t know. I don’t think he would ask me… Trump, you know, again, you always get me in trouble with these questions. So let’s move on,” Scarborough begged.

“No, Joe, pause with me for a second. It makes perfect sense. You’re not the first person I’ve told this to. I have told a number of people Trump will ask Scarborough to be his running mate for a whole variety of reasons, especially Florida. And you’re not a stranger to Virginia, and you know your way around politics. So just, really, would you say yes,” Hewitt said.

“Oh, you know, I will say this, and I’ve said this on the air, and so this is not really any secret at all. I’ll do anything that will get, will stop us from eight more years like the past eight years we’ve had,” Scarborough admitted.

“Amen,” Hewitt said. “And so if that included saying yes, you’d say yes?”

“I mean, I think I’d put myself in your category. I would do just about anything to try to get the White House back,” Scarborough said.

Hewitt took that as a yes but Scarborough replied, “No, it’s not a yes. You tried this before with, I think, senator here or senator there, but anyway…”

Hewitt acknowledged that he has tried to get Scarborough to run for Senate before saying, “I have. You know, I’m always trying to get Joe Scarborough out of…”

Scarborough interjected, “You’re telling me this is why I walked away from dinner with my kids, to not answer this question?”

“You did answer,” Hewitt said. “You’d say yes. That was not Shermanesque. I heard a yes there, and people will be writing about it tomorrow, and they’ll start to think about it. And when it happens, in Cleveland, if Trump is the nominee and Scarborough’s the VP, they will look back and say Hewitt called that in January.”

“You’re a very funny guy,” Scarborough said.

After the interview, Scarborough took to Twitter to clarify his interview with Hewitt, closing the door on possibly being Trump’s running mate.

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