His campaign manager picked palin, and later admitted it was a mistake. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/republican-strategi

His campaign manager picked palin, and later admitted it was a mistake. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/republican-strategist-steve-schmidt-renounces-the-republican-party-calls-for-the-election-of-democrats.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics... Having a gun toting female vp on the republican ticket would have been a strategic move had she not been such a dumpster fire, so I see where he was going with it. Unfortunately for America it propelled her into the national spotlight and we were subjected to her idiotic rambling for years.